The future of the past : attitudes to conservation, 1174-1974 / edited by Jane Fawcett ; [contributions by] Nikolaus Pevsner [and 7 others]

London : Thames and Hudson, 1976. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 160 pages: illustrations, facsimiles; 25 cm. Notes: ""With 125 illustrations."" Includes bibliographical references and index. Contributions by John Betjeman, Nikolaus Boulting, Hugh Casson, Jane Fawcett, Mark Girouard, Osbert Lancaster, Nikolaus Pevsner, Robin Winks. Contents: The law's delays: conservationist legislation in the British Isles / Nikolaus Boulting -- Scrape and anti-scrape / Nikolaus Pevsner -- A preservationist's progress / John Betjeman -- What should we preserve? / Osbert Lancaster -- A restoration tragedy: cathedrals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Jane Fawcett -- Living with the past: Victorian alterations to country houses / Mark Girouard -- Conservation in America: national character as revealed by preservation / Robin Winks -- Old sites and new buildings: the architect's point of view / Hugh Casson. Subjects: Victorian Society (England). Architecture Great Britain Conservation and restoration. Architecture United States Conservation and restoration. Architecture Conservation and restoration. Gothic revival (Architecture). Architecture Conservation and restoration; Addresses, essays, lectures. Vernacular Buildings - Architecture - Great Britain. Islamic Features - Architecture - Great Britain. British Architecture. Britain - Architecture. Genre: Illustrated. Publishers' advertisements.