Serves as a guide to vital features of the architectural and social inheritance of the West. This work describes twenty types of buildings; and includes national monuments, libraries, theaters, hospitals, prisons, factories, hotels, and many other public buildings. It contains more than seven hundred illustrations.
"A monument of lively scholarship, and also a most revealing anthology. . . . Gloriously informative. It brims with curious details."---Raymond Mortimer, Sunday Times
