`First published in Great Britain Mcmxliv by Pleiades Books Ltd, 11 Fitzroy Square, London, W1. Printed by McLagan & Cumming Ltd., Edinburgh and London.’ [Rear pastedown].
Contents
The snail -- Tents, wigwams and huts -- Caravans and barges -- Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian -- Ancient Egyptian -- Ancient Greek -- Ancient Roman -- Romanesque and Byzantine -- Norman -- Gothic -- The castles -- The great wall of China -- Angkor Vat -- Old Mexican building -- The Russian churches -- Arabian cities -- The Renaissance -- Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren -- Baroque -- Queen Anne and Georgian -- Shipbuilding -- Victorian -- Skyscrapers -- Modern Scandinavian.