WILLIAM BURGES AND THE HIGH VICTORIAN DREAM

First edition, first printing. Original purple cloth with titles to the spine in gilt over white, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates in colour and black and white. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the near fine original dustwrapper that is very slightly rubbed at the extremities. Not price-clipped (priced with a label to the lower front flap).

An in-depth examination of the life and work of the architect-designer William Burges, as well as the wider Victorian culture's obsession with the medieval world - dubbed by Mordaunt Crook the 'High Victorian Dream'.