Pleasure of Ruins

Benn, Roloff and Rose Macaulay

Roloff Beny's pictorial version of Rose Macaulay's 'Pleasure of Ruins': twelve tipped-in colour plates, twenty-nine maps and plans, one hundred and sixty photogravure reproductions; the 'Grand Tour' goes ecumenical, from Burma to Yugoslavia, twenty-five other countries in between; edited and selected by Constance Babington Smith

Publisher: Thames and Hudson. Reprint 1966
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Barry Humphries' copy with his bookplate. Very good in dustwrapper chipped and marked at edges.


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