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| Author | Osbert Lancaster |
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| Publisher | John Murray |
Publication date | 1938 |
| OCLC | 1150976101 |
Pillar to Post is a book of drawings and text by Osbert Lancaster. It was first published in 1938 and covers the history of western architecture from Ancient Egypt to buildings of the 1930s. There were 40 chapters in the original edition. Lancaster later added two more. Each chapter consists of a page of text on the left and a drawing on the right. The texts vary in length but are typically between 300 and 400 words each.
A second edition was published in 1956 with some additional material, and most of the text and drawings were republished in 1959 in Here, of All Places which combined Pillar to Post and its 1939 successor, Homes Sweet Homes, which covered the interiors of buildings.
Although the texts and the drawings are entertaining and sometimes comic, the book serves a serious purpose: making readers aware of good – and bad – architecture.