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Laurie, I. C. et al.
Tyne Landscape.
Publisher: City Planning Office, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Date of Publication: 1969
Stock Code: 10859
FIRST EDITION. Softcover landscape quarto, pp. 52. Monochrome illustrations and maps & plans throughout: photographs by I. C. Laurie, K. Curry, J. Partridge and Philipson Studios, plans by J. Kelsey, W. Parr & J. Partridge and sketches by H. E. Wakefield, A. Thursby and R. B. Connell. Stapled green pictorial card wraps designed by J. C. L. Malpas, with Sid Chaplin’s “The Black River” printed inside upper cover (by courtesy of The Guardian). Covers a little rubbed at spine tips and corners, with laminate just beginning to peel at edge and corners of upper cover creased at tips. Contents clean and crisp with no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Scarce brochure on the changing role of the river Tyne, its drawbacks and assets and suggestions for the post-industrial future, with comparisons to waterside developments in Europe. £45.00