ISBN10: 0140710183, ISBN13: 9780140710182, [publisher: Penguin Books] Hardcover First Edition Hardback, 359 pp. Good condition. Pages clean. 1977 reprint of first edition. Dust jacket, small red ink stains on lower front of dust jacket to the right of the photo, otherwise good. Pevsner wrote that "Leicestershire is not a county of extremes" and agreed that "no other county in England surpasses Rutland for unspoiled quiet charm". The large and the small Midland county possess a varied and rewarding range of buildings. Church architecture encompasses the classical Normanton, preserved in remote isolation from the flood of Rutland Water, to Market Harborough with its elegant medieval steeple, and a fine group of Victorian churches in Leicester. The major country houses include Belvoir Castle, Staunton Harold and Burley-on-the-Hill, while the more modest homes of the late 19th century include notable work by Ernest Gimson,Voysey and a garden city at Leicester by Parker & Unwin. Leicestershire also posseses fine modern buildings, from its architecturally progressive schools to the justly renowned buildings of Leicester University, dominated by Stirling & Gowan's Engineering Building.
[Church Stretton, SHROP, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1970]

ISBN10: 0140710183, ISBN13: 9780140710182, [publisher: Penguin Books] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1970]
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