A Lust For Window Sills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble Dash
by Mount, Harry
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1408700905
- ISBN 13
- 9781408700907
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Little Brown, 2008 9781408700907. Hardback. Fine/Fine. No inscriptions or annotations. 374 pages. A brilliant, offbeat celebration of the great hodgepodge of British buildings. From soaring Victorian railway stations to Edwardian terraces, from Perpendicular churches to Strawberry Hill Gothick, Britain has an architecture unrivalled in fertility, invention and heart-stopping beauty. And with some very strong feelings about window sills, Harry Mount could not be better qualified to survey it. Meandering through garden suburbs and cathedral closes, discovering Moghul palaces in Gloucestershire and Egyptian sphinxes in Islington. 'A Lust for Window Sills' is rich with anecdote, allusion and such inspired digressions as where to find the ugliest gargoyles and a liquid history of watering holes from gin palaces to the Rovers Return. .
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Includes index.
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2004
- Title
- A Lust For Window Sills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble Dash
- Author
- Mount, Harry
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1408700905
- ISBN 13
- 9781408700907
- Publisher
- Little Brown,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Architecture Buildings Palaces Cathedrals Garden Suburbs Railway Stations Edwardian Terraces QSE
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