The Pleasures of Architecture
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. 1st ed., first impression. Octavo, original cloth-backed green patterned boards with buff-coloured spine, title label to spine, original illustrated dustkacket, b&w photograph plates section at rear, b&w illustrations in text (including illustrated header each chapter, full-page illustrated plans), index, pp 259 plus 16 pages of plates. Some rubbing to edges. Previous owner's inscription front endpaper (underneath flap of d.j.), offsetting to endpapers, front endpaper and halfitle page quite heavily foxed, rear free endpaper more lightly foxed, otherwise clean. Dustjacket tanned and lightly chipped head and foot of spine small tear across spine and upper inner corner, two small chips and light marking rear panel. Very good condition in like d,j. Scarce thus.
Beautifully illustrated treatise on architecture, in the scarce first edition dustjacket. Chapters include: The Way We Are Evolving, The Fringes of Taste, The Wrecks of the Old Criticism, An Attempt to State Some Fundamentals, Twenty Architects, Houses, and The Infernal Versus the Human Ideal. Clough Williams-Ellis was a Welsh architect, most remembered as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales. Several of the themes explored in Portmeirion are elaborated upon in "The Pleasures of Architecture". The book was written in conjunction with his wife Amabel (nee Strachey, Lytton Strachey's cousin). It demonstrates an early interest in conservation. Item #103823
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