Hardcover. Large 8vo. B. T. Batsford, Ltd, London, UK. 1931. 1033 pgs. Maps. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Ninth Edition. Bound in gilt decorated cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine faded, rear panel bubbled). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Sir Banister Flight Fletcher (15 February 1866, London – 17 August 1953, London) was an English architect and architectural historian, as was his father, also named Banister Fletcher. They wrote the standard textbook A History of Architecture, which is also often referred to just as Banister Fletcher. He and his father wrote the first edition of A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method.
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