William Butterfield: Victorian Architect
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1971. Hardcover. Grey cloth; fuschia ill. DJ in Bro-Dart cover; xxix, 526 pp. with bw frontis, 25 color and 392 bw plates. VG-/VG- clean and tight; faint age toning to page margins. Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Dj not price-clipped. Item #32906
ISBN: 9780262200202
William Butterfield has taken a central place in every history of nineteenth-century architecture; and rightly, for he was the pioneer of the original High Victorian phase of the Gothic Revival, and the first Victorian architect to experiment with constructional color. This is the first biography of Butterfield and thus meets a major need. It seeks, through a combined discussion of Butterfield's personality, his style, and the social situation in which he worked, to reach a new understanding not merely of Butterfield but of the whole significance of High Victorian architecture. This book is richly illustrated with photographs in black and white and in color.
OCLC: 948758634
Price: $50.00