John Betjeman GHASTLY GOOD TASTE Signed Limited Edition
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John Betjeman GHASTLY GOOD TASTE Signed Limited Edition
Limited edition hardback of GHASTLY GOOD TASTE (Or, a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture) by John Betjeman and published by Anthony Blond Ltd in 1970. Number 186 of 200 specially bound copies printed. Signed by Betjeman on the limitation page.The book is in very good condition (quarter bound brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to black leather spine) with some rubbing to the spine. No slipcase. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
Most famous for his poetry, John Betjeman was also passionate about architecture, 'preferring all centuries to my own'. In his first prose work, Ghastly Good Taste (originally published in 1933), he vigorously defends his love of Victorian and Edwardian architecture, considered deeply unfashionable at the time. With the savage humour of his famous satire 'Slough', he attacks notions of Modernism and (at the other extreme) unthinking antiquarianism. This edition features a 9-foot-long fold out street view illustration by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh.
112 pages plus Preface.
ISBN: 218511566
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