First edition. 8vo. xviii, 158 pp., black and white photographic illustrations. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean; slight lean to text block, a near fine copy). Manchester, Carcanet, 1994.
A collection of fifteen essays by the Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton on aesthetics and architecture that variously champion the continuation the classical architectural tradition over modernist architecture.
