BETJEMAN, John. Ghastly Good Taste, or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English Architecture for the first time revised with annotations by the author. London: Anthony Blond, 1970.
Large 4to., salmon pink boards, lettered in black, backed in black cloth lettered in silver along spine; in the matching printed dust jacket (price clipped); [v], vii-xxviii, 112, [ii], folding map, [ii]; near-fine, a little compressed and rubbed at spine ends; map a tad creased in places; jacket a little sunned along spine with some nicking and chipping, particualrly so to spine ends.
First edition thus, originally published in 1933 by Chapman and Hall. Betjeman's first book on architecture vigorously defends Victorian and Edwardian buildings, which were out of favour at the time of writing. This edition also complete with the 9 foot illustration to the rear, showing the 'Street of Taste' from Christendom to the imagined 'Science, Religion and Space Age'.
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