Buy this book on-line SMITH, EDWIN and COOK**, OLIVE: : ENGLISH CATHEDRALS.**LONDON.THE HERBERT PRESS,1989. ISBN 090696962X.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore -edges bright and generally clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean, unblemished,publisher's original maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-285pp [paginated] includes foreword,contents list/table, acknowledgements,an introduction,8 chapters,profuse b/w scenic (200) architectural photographs throughout the text and the book,a select bibliography,an index,2pp blanks to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and b/w photographic frntis (Head of Christ, Chicester Cathedral).
Edwin Smith,who died in 1971,was one of the most brilliant architectural photographers of his generation.Many books of his work have been published,covering a wide variety of subjects from parish churches to country cottages and gardens, mostly in collaboration with his wife Olive Cook.
Trained as an architect,Edwin Smith had a special feeling for church architecture, and over a long period he photographed extensively all of England's cathedrals. The cathedral photographs,which include some of his finest works,have not previously been assembled in a single volume,and many of the 200 selected for this book have not been reproduced before. The arrangement is chronological rather than by cathedral,showing the development of cathedral design for over 900 years,and Olive Cook's text is not only a commentary on the features illustrated but an original and scholarly account of the historical background and the changing liturgical rites bound up with this development.
This is not a conventional guide book but a celebration of some of the world's great architectural masterpieces,yielding many new and revealing glimpses of exquisite details and extraordiinary architectural conceits.
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