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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1960. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Besides this limitation two more have proved necessary. It was out of the question to treat European architecture of all ages from Stonehenge to the 20th century or the architecture of all the nations which make up Europe to-day. Neither would however be expected of a volume called European Architecture. The Greek temple. most readers probably agree and the Roman forum belong to the civilization of Antiquity not to what we usually mean when we speak of European civilization. But it will also be agreed that Greece and Rome are the most indispensable of all premisses for an understanding of European civilization. Hence they appear in the first chapter of this book but appear only very briefly. The same is true of the Mediterranean civilization of the first Christian decades and its expression in the Early Christian churches of Rome Ravenna and the Near East and the Byzantine churches. They belong to a civilization different from ours but one of its sources. That again accounts for the way in which they are treated here. A different case is that of say Bulgaria. If it is never mentioned at all in the following pages the reason is that Bulgaria in the past belonged to the Byzantine and then to the Russian orbit and that her importance now is so marginal as to make her omission pardonable. So everything will be left out of this book that is only of marginal interest in the development of European architecture. (OS)