Betjeman, John
| Title |
Ghastly Good Taste or, a depressing story of the rise and fall of English Architecture |
| Date |
London 1970 |
| Publisher |
Anthony Blond Limited |
Description
LIMITED EDITION, this numbered '191' of a total edition of 200 copies. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page (the front free endpaper). Publisher's brown cloth with quarter black leather binding and gilt lettering to spine, green endpapers. Designed by Sebastian Carter. Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh's 'The Street of Taste or the March of English Art Down the Ages' is the nine feet long folding chronology, attached to the second endpaper. Author's note: 'All the buildings are imaginary, except one which was demolished in 1961. All the traffic is real.' Octavo. pp. xxviii, 116.
Condition
A book in Fine condition with some rubbing to the leather quarter binding at the spine head and tail, commensurate with ag
