LONDON: VANISHED & VANISHING - Norman, 1st 1905 - 75 ILLUSTRATIONS ARCHITECTURE

Book Details + Condition: Adam and Charles Black (London). First Edition, 1905. Hardcover. 286 pages with index. Illustrated with 75 original colored plates by the author, after his paintings. Norman takes the reader on a tour of the buildings that began to vanish from the city at the turn of the century. The following passage is taken from the preface: "The writer, for many years, has employed his spare time in examining those older portions of London which have now been to a great extent 'improved' away; he has visited them again and again, making notes on the spot, with brush and pencil, of picturesque buildings, threatened with destruction and developed his findings into this work." Provenance: Former ownership by Commissioner Frederick Duda, Commissioner of Public Utilities in Marietta GA. Included is a letter to Duda referencing an enclosed introduction from Charles Edward Hodges. Inscribed on the back of the card, "Kindly, accept this is little token of my appreciation." Both t