[ARCHITECTURE] BUILDINGS OF VIRGINIA: VALLEY, PIEDMONT, SOUTHSIDE, AND SOUTHWEST [BUILDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES]

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in the publisher's black cloth with dustjacket; 530 pages, including the voluminous Index; with in-text illustrations thoughout.~~This work contains basic information, and in many cases more extensive historical and / or descriptive information, and is often up-to-date to the time of publication. For example, for the Western State Lunatic Asylum in Staunton: "The growing scale of incarceration is illustrated by such large buildings as the four-story u-shaped North Ward ... [with] giant pilasters separating the bays, a variety of window shapes, a pediment, and an octagonal cupola." There are hundred os other examples. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.