ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE. The First Style of the European Age.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 388 colour photographs, black and white maps, floorplans and architectural sketches throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with just a little bumping to the extremities. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper, that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped.

'In a new addition to the Pelican History of Art series, leading architectural historian Eric Fernie presents a chronological survey of Romanesque architecture and the political systems that gave rise to the style. Known for its massive quality, thick walls, round arches, piers, groin vaults, large towers and decorative arcading, as well as the measured articulation of volumes and surfaces, Romanesque architecture was also, at the time of its greatest popularity in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the first distinctive style to dominate western and central Europe' (publisher's blurb).