Dark green hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and small light smudge to front endpaper. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally lightly soiled and shelfworn. Price-clipped. 275pp. Many b/w plates. This book is a definitive documented study of the works of a talented enterprising man whose versatility enabled him to come to the forefront of any field in which he chose to work. The work for which he is best known, the Great Exhibition building of 1851 was only one of his largest projects. He was also a gardener, landscape architect and architect.