Item #130491 The Architecture of an Island. The Living Heritage of Sri Lanka. A Thousand Years of Architecture illustrated by Outstanding Examples of Religious, Public, and Domestic Buildings. Sri Lanka, Ronald LEWCOCK, Laki SENANAYAKE, Barbara SANSONI.

[Sri Lanka]. LEWCOCK, Ronald, Barbara SANSONI, Laki SENANAYAKE (and others)

The Architecture of an Island. The Living Heritage of Sri Lanka. A Thousand Years of Architecture illustrated by Outstanding Examples of Religious, Public, and Domestic Buildings

Colombo, Barefoot (PVT) Ltd, 2002/ 1998.

Quarto, xxxvi (last blank), 336 pages with hundreds of illustrations plus numerous colour plates.

Cloth; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper lightly scored on the rear panel.

'The architecture, both domestic as well as religious, of the various indigenous ethnic groups in Sri Lanka: of the Sinhalese, the Tamils and the Muslims; as well as that of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English who colonized the island from the early 1500s ... Unfortunately more than half of the 100 examples it contains, have disappeared!' (publisher's website).