Betjeman, John Ghastly Good Taste or a depressing story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture

Ghastly Good Taste or a depressing story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture by John Betjeman

Illustration by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh.

First edition first issue hardback published by Chapman and Hall in London 1933. Original cloth backed printed board. Very good copy.

Includes the reference to Mowbray in the poem on p119 expunged from the second issue.

Ghastly Good Taste was Betjeman's second book. In it he defends his appreciation of Victorian and Edward architecture and expounds against the rise of modernism. The book is dedicated to Penelope Chetwode whom he married in the same year as publication.

Pink paper-covered hardback with decorative title to front board, backed with blue buckram, printed label to spine. xii, 139 pages. Errata slip and spare spine label tipped-in. Illustrated with a 40 inch folding plate reproducing a black-and-white line drawing by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh. English. 190 x 130mm. 0.3kg.

 Fading to board with bumps to top and bottom of the spine and scuffs elsewhere. Text is clean. No DJ as issued.

Pictures form part of description.