9781850749127

Letters from England

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781850749127

Paperback|9781850749127


Overview

English Heritage Pocket Books encourage us to look beyond the obvious. Writer and photographer Peter Ashley champions the sometimes neglected and unsung architecture and related artefacts of everyday life, looking at everything from signal boxes to pre-war road signs, from lighthouses to canal tunnels. The series is beautifully produced with original colour photography throughout, accompanied by a witty and often idiosyncratic text. Lettering on signs and buildings were once the preserve of the signmaker, lettercutter or commercial artist. In this commuter-generated age we are rapidly losing the skills that gave us such a variety of traditional signing: the wooden letters of railway station signs, the everlasting bright colours of vitreous enamel advertising, the comforting livery of a local bus company, a quality of craftsmanship that enriched our lives for so long.

ISBN-13

9781850749127

ISBN-10

1850749124

Weight

0.31 Pounds

Dimensions

5.86 x 6.02 x 0.25 In

List Price

$12.00

Format

Paperback

Pages

80 pages

Publisher

English Heritage

Published On

2004-12-31



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