Bricks & Teracotta
20016 TERRA COTTA SKYLINE, New York’s Architectural Ornament NOW £14.99
Susan Tunick, & Peter Mauss, Princeton, 1997, 176pp, 90 b&w + 77 colour illus, boards
This superb book, illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, presents the history, manufacture and art of architectural terracotta as it developed in New York from the end of the 19th century. Also includes a guide to 200 existing terracotta buildings and lists manufacturers and preservation organisations.
20043 THE TERRACOTTA DESIGNS OF ALFRED WATERHOUSE NOW £16.95
Colin Cunningham, Wiley Academy, 2001, 192pp, 165 b & w + 39 colour illus, quarto paperback
The piece de resistance of British terracotta is surely the amazing Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, which is in itself one of the best buildings designed by Alfred Waterhouse. This superb book illustrates all his 135 drawings for the incredibly detailed terracotta work which was carried out by Gibbs and Canning in the 1870s.