Architecture

Colour frontispiece and very numerous b&w photograph illustrations, ground-plan for each property, location map and other maps, x & 260 pp, sewn paperback, spine and corners a little rubbed, otherwise good, The Landmark Trust (Maidenhead, Berkshire) 1990

29.4 x 19.7 cm, 790g, ISBN 0 95129 533 0 

The Landmark Trust is a charity which rescues buildings in distress, and then restores them and lets them out for short holidays.  Every year it produces a handbook which describes the properties (see example page below).  As each building has been selected as worthy of restoration, the handbook becomes a valuable record of the slightly quirkier side of British vernacular architecture.