Author: Robert BattyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Welsh Scenery
Author: Robert BattyHouses of the Welsh Countryside
Author: Peter SmithPublisher: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
ISBN: 011300012X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
When this book was first published in 1975 it was at once enthusiastically received by scholars and the general public alike and recognized as a classic of its genre. It represented a notable publication of the early fruits of the Commission's work on the side of its responsibility for the National Monuments Record for Wales. During the years which have since intervened, much fresh information has come to light concerning Welsh houses - not least because of the intense interest awakened by the original publication. This new knowledge has, as far as possible, been incorporated in the new and revised edition, which contains approximately onequarter more material than the first. Although it has not been possible to alter the original text, a number of additional maps and photographs have been included and a new dust-jacket has been designed. The Commissioners would wish warmly to congratulate their Secretary, Mr. Peter Smith, those of his colleagues who were associated with him, and H.M.S.O. on the excellence of this volume. It marks another outstanding landmark in the study of vernacular architecture, not only in Wales but also in the British Isles, and a major achievement on the part of its author. Although this second edition of Houses of the Welsh Countryside retains in their entirety the text, the illustrations, and the layout of the volume first published in 1975, it also includes a substantial amount of new information which has come to light since that date. Some of this new material takes the form of additional figures inserted where appropriate into the existing illustrative pages. Similarly a small number of additional colour plates showing typical houses in characteristic settings has been tipped into the text. There are also additions to the original map lists. It has not been possible for reasons of cost to bring the maps themselves up to date, but as the newly-discovered sites nearly always reinforce the distribution patterns first indicated, this omission is not crucial. The numbers of new discoveries can vary from a mere handful on one list to several hundred on another. All other new material is introduced as part of an additional SECTION IV at the back of the volume. This section comprises: Corrigenda Covering sites which were inadequately or incorrectly described in the first volume, involving in one case a complete reappraisal of the original reference. Addenda I Describing and illustrating a small number of newly surveyed houses of especial interest which could not easily be fitted into the illustrations in the main text. Addenda II Analysing the incidence of date-inscriptions as evidence for building activity. Addenda III Listing and mapping a number of features of domestic architecture not previously so noted. Addenda IV Listing and mapping various features of ecclesiastical architecture which also occur in houses and which therefore have a bearing on the evolution of domestic architecture.
Welsh Scenery (chiefly in Snowdonia).
Author: Thomas George BonneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caernarvonshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Miscellaneous poems; and pen-and-ink sketches, chiefly of Welsh scenery and noted places in Carnarvonshire. Also, selections from the letters of “Welsh Girl” and “Old Mountaineer”
Author: Richard RICHARDS (of Bangor.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Tales of Welsh Society and Scenery
Author: Welsh SocietyWelsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry
Author: Matthew JarvisPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786837315
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This book analyses how contemporary Welsh poetry, in both Welsh and English, constructs Wales as both human and physical space, within the context of 'ecocriticism', a literary critical practice that emerges out of environmentalist concern. It is one of the most recent interdisciplinary fields to have emerged in literary and cultural studies.
Turner and Girtin's Picturesque Views of English, Scotch & Welsh Scenery a Hundred Years Ago ...
Author: Thomas MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Welsh Review
Author: Ernest Brown Bowen-RowlandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Author: Hugh Humphreys
Author: William Strong