New York and London Charles Scribner's Sons 1928

xxxi + 401pp illustrated with 374 b/w plates of the major modern buildings in the USA. The focus is on public buildings including banks, town halls and capitols, churches, expositions, court houses, clubs, office buildings and related commercial structures and hotels although also includes a large selection of houses. Contemporary with the construction of many of the buildings features this is a useful look at the new city buildings of the USA in the inter war period and features all the major firms as well as others who have sunk into oblivion. Green cloth. Square 4to. Gilt lettered. Slightly rubbed on spine. This copy has stamps of the City of Portsmouth surveyors office on fep and prelims else a very good copy.