Architecture, Industry and Wealth. Collected Papers
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., November 1902 ('New Edition')/ July 1902 ('First Collected Edition printed in the Golden type of the Kelmscott Press').
Octavo, viii, 269 pages.
Brick-red cloth with a printed paper title-label on the spine; all edges uncut; covers a little rubbed, flecked and slightly bumped at the extremities; spine lightly sunned, with the label rubbed and slightly chipped; endpapers and adjacent leaves foxed, with minimal scattered foxing elsewhere; overall, a very good copy.
Provenance: Bertram William Mathyson Francis Stevens (1872-1922), Australian literary and art critic, with his ink ownership signature on the title page. 'A proficient, lucid critic, Stevens was pre-eminently a cultural catalyst and pioneer who perceived needs and lacunae' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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