Lost Victorian Britain: How the 20th century destroyed the 19th century's architectural masterpieces

摘要

Most of us would find it impossible not to be attracted by this book, and not to be dismayed by the superlative quality of so many nineteenth century buildings Britain had, but which we no longer possess. Compellingly well illustrated, every seducing image calls us to remember we are looking at something that made the world's culture richer, now forever gone, every bit as irretrievable as the likewise unfortunate dodo.