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Osbert Lancaster's Cartoons, Columns and Curlicues: Includes Pillar to Post, Homes Sweet Homes and Drayneflete Revealed
Osbert Lancaster
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Description for Osbert Lancaster's Cartoons, Columns and Curlicues: Includes Pillar to Post, Homes Sweet Homes and Drayneflete Revealed
Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with the author's own black and white line drawings and diagrams Num Pages: 304 pages, Black and white line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 246 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1332.
This beautiful boxed-set contains three long out-of-print and influential books by the great British humourist, Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908-1986) - Pillar to Post, the story of architecture through the ages, first published in 1938 and described by Gavin Stamp as 'One of the most influential books on architecture ever published'; Homes Sweet Homes, a history of architectural interiors and a sequel to Pillar to Post, was first published in 1939, and Drayneflete Revealed, first published in 1948, which traces the development of one particularly typical (invented) English town.
Product Details
Publisher
Pimpernel Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910258378
SKU
V9781910258378
Shipping Time
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About Osbert Lancaster
Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908-1986) was a painter, a writer, a cartoonist, a theatre designer, an authority on architecture and design, and above all a great British humorist. His pocket cartoons depicting the aristocratic Maudie Littlehampton, her family and friends, which appeared in the Daily Express for forty years, recorded in his inimitably English way the life, news and opinions of ... Read more
Reviews for Osbert Lancaster's Cartoons, Columns and Curlicues: Includes Pillar to Post, Homes Sweet Homes and Drayneflete Revealed
"Pillar to Post and Homes Sweet Homes, the first two of these reprinted volumes, were described by Ernst Gombrich as comprising 'the best textbooks of architecture ever published'....The books are as Gombrich described them, an introductory course of laconic brilliance."
Rosemary Hill
London Review of Books
"Reprinted in a delightful three-volume boxed set....a very happy Christmas present ... Read more
Rosemary Hill
London Review of Books
"Reprinted in a delightful three-volume boxed set....a very happy Christmas present ... Read more