Francis Greenway: His Life and Times by M H Ellis

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Small bend to left tail back cover corner. Foxing marks on inside covers and foredges.

Francis Greenway, sentenced to death for forgery in 1812, escaped the gallows to become the first architect to bequeath to his unwillingly adopted country, buildings whose beauty has remained unsurpassed.

The clarity of Greenway's work is in striking contrast to his turbulent career. An architect of standing in the west of England, he endured the misery of the hulks and the long-drawn horror of the voyage to New South Wales and emerged to become the Civil Architect of the colony and to dine at the Governor's table. (back cover)

Initially published in 1949, this edition is part of the Famous Australian Lives series.