Maurice Craig: 2 books
by Maurice Craig
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
'Our finest living essayist. Maurice Craig's exquisite collection... is at once literary, erudite and mechanical: poppet-valves and cams, Yeats's inability to spell, bookbindings and motor-car design, the Tichborne scandal and airships, raised foc's'les and the particularity of certain words - all...
A Field Guide to the Buildings of Ireland
Illustrating the Smaller Buildings of Town and Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1997
The history of building in Ireland spans more than five thousand years. The evidence of these years of building persists thoughout the intricate and richly textured landscape of the island. In the course of an hour's drive or, in some areas, a walk, strange stone monuments from neolithic times, remnants...