While not in mint condition when bought in Adelaide some years ago , the book from which this view of the Acropolis comes has been carted about parts of Australia and is currently in bad shape in the tropics , now discovered to have been severely munched by accursed bookworms .
Published in 1949 by Batsford ( London, New York ,Toronto , Sydney ) , entitled The Drawings of W. Curtis Green , it contains 148 of his pen and ink drawings and watercolours of the world's architectural masterpieces . An English architect , Green (1875-1960) , did reviews of architecture books for The Athenaeum and while connected with The Builder toured far and wide writing and illustrating articles , many of the drawings included in this book . A book collecting friend in Adelaide once picked up some nice volumes of The Builder while travelling through Victoria .
President of the Architectural Association , 1912-13 , Green was also chairman of the Board of Architectural Education , 1920-24. Over the years he designed power stations , banks , the Dorchester Hotel and Cambridge University Press in 1938.
The book , from the Adelaide Kelvin Grove State High School Library , contains a handwritten inscription : In memory of our son . Mr and Mrs T. N. Mitchell , Guernsey , Channel Islands .
The view of the Acropolis , from the missing cover jacket , is taped inside as are portions of the blurb and other illustrations .
