Allan junior foreword (1 Ergebnisse)

210 x 273 mm; side-stitched printed card wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 40); photographic illustrations to recto's, and explanatory captions to facing verso's. Cover a little creased and curled; archival tape reinforcing internally to upper hinge; rather foxed. "Sir Robert Lorimer, A.R.A., R.S.A., a Scottish Architect, was entrusted to give expression to the soul of the people, so that what was once a dwelling place for the living has been transformed into a Shrine in memory of the dead. The noble structure witnesses to the wisdom of the Committee's choice, and the treasures of Sculpture in walls and pillars, the exquisite art in panel and window, bear testimony to the genius of Scottish Art and Craftsmanship of these modern days. Historic fact and symbolic imagery, combine to make it worthy of the valiant names inscribed upon the volumes of Remembrance which rest therein.".…