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Melbourne: Nelson. 1970. Folio Size [38x28cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. The dustjacket has light edgewear and scattered staining to front panel. There is also a small stain to the fore edge of the book. The last few plates have light stains at the lower edge but there is no impact on the plates. 32 pages (Text) + 49 full page plates. A memoir of the notable Australian architect, artist and author with a selection of the best drawings from his 'Old Colonial Architecture' together with several never before published. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1970. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 320mm x 405mm. Moderate general wear to boards. A small stain (1cm x 3.5cm) to top front of cloth. Some foxing to edges of page-block. Minimal foxing to feps and pastedowns. Otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 34pp plus 47 full-page plates. Priced according to condition and lack of jacket..

Melbourne, Nelson, 1970.. 34pp+47 b/w plates. Folio. Original cloth-backed boards in dustwrapper with short tear , a very good copy.

Melbourne; Nelson; 1970.. First Edition; Med. Folio; pp. 34 (text), 47 (full page plates), unpaginated; frontispiece, original quarter cloth with cream papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt decoration to front board, dustjacket a little chipped and worn, very good copy. This present volume is a memoir, and it is reproduced the best of the drawings from Old Colonial Architecture (1924), together with several that have never before been published. The book is therefore a new comprehensive collection of the best of Hardy Wilson's drawings. The introduction by Cyril Pearl brings the character of the man into sharp focus and using passages from Hardy Wilson's own writings, unfolds a portrait of a man beset by fears for man's aesthetic degradation and for the future of mankind itself.

Australia: Thomas Nelson, 1970. Hardcover. There is a small hole in the cloth of the spine which does not affect the text that is in fine clean condition. Book is without dust jacket.. [lg folio] 34pp., plus 47 plates.

Melbourne: Nelson, 1970. 1st edition. Nice copy. oversize. hardback in original cloth 34 + (47)pp., illusts., No dust jacket o/w a nice copy

Melbourne: Nelson, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne, Nelson, 1970. Folio, 34, [2] pages with a frontispiece and one illustration plus 45 full-page plates. Quarter cloth and gilt-decorated papered boards; text block slightly cockled (possibly as often); a near-fine copy with the slightly marked and torn pictorial dustwrapper (featuring an illustration not included in the book). A 28-page memoir by Pearl plus 'the best of the drawings from "Old Colonial Architecture" [1924] together with several that have never before been published. They therefore form a new comprehensive collection of the best of Hardy Wilson's drawings' (dustwrapper).

Thomas Nelson. Melbourne. 1970.. Folio, non-paginated. Hardcover slightly marked and now protected by clear mylar, some very slight page wrinkling (exposure to damp?) otherwise interior in very good condition. Facsimile reproduction of Wilson's Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania (1924) with 47 architectural drawings some never before published with biographical sketch by Pearl.

Melbourne: Nelson, 1970. 1st edition. Fine. oversize. chipped dust jacket 34 + (47)pp., illusts.,

Melbourne, Australia: Thomas Nelson Ltd, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover with cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 1970, folio, 34pp. + 47 plates. Book VG with bump to top corners, mild wear to spine ends, binding tight, Commonwealth of Australia stamp to front and rear pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ good with some cracks and tears to spine, spine ends chipped, rubbing and soil, in protective mylar wrap. THIS LARGE BOOK WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING FEES.

Sydney, Australia: Thomas Nelson Ltd., 1970. 47 b/w plates. Unpaginated pages, clean and clear. Orange endpapers, with previous owner`s bookplate on front paste-down endpaper and an inscription by Hardy Wilson`s son on ffep. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped, head and tail of spine lightly worn. Beige DJ with black and orange titles. Chips, wear along the edges. VG+/VG. First Edition.

EB: Nelson. Very Good. 1970. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Published by Thomas Nelson, [Melbourne], Australia. No Date [©1970]. 34 pgs, illustrated with 47 plates. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. William (later Hardy) Wilson had been born in Sydney in 1881. His search for architectural truth, a deep love and appreciation of beauty, an interest in history and an abiding faith in the concept of the artist-architect led him to strive for the pre-Victorian virtues. But his was not mere copyism. Sensitive to the underlying qualities of colonial architecture, he sought to apply their timeless principles to his own work. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 34 pages .

Melbourne, London, Johannesburg: Thomas Nelson Ltd, 1970. An excellent copy with dust jacket.. Binding: ¼ cloth with paper boards, gilt embossed decorative design on upper board. Flat spine with title in gilt, dust jacket in excellent condition., Size: Folio, Illustration: Numerous lithographs depicting various architectural views., Pages: P. printer’s imprint, frontis, title, printer’s imprint, (2), 7-34, 47 plates, Category: Book Art, Architecture & Design;

Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1970. Many of the plates in this book originally featured in Wilson's "Old Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania", a legendary work in Australian architectural history, now a rare and desirable volume. Folio, 47 full-page plates; cream boards, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper and dust-jacket thumbed, else a fine copy in the original quarter cloth.

(WILSON) PEARL, Cyril. HARDY WILSON AND HIS OLD COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE. (Sydney): Nelson, (1970). Folio. Cloth spine, boards, dust jacket. 34 (2) pages; 47 plates. First edition. Hardy Wilson was an Australian architectural writer and "philosopher". In hi lifetime he published eleven books on architecture This volume contains a biographical sketch of Wilson by Pearl and forty-seven architectural drawings Wilson, some never before published. Very good in a worn dust jacket.