Tan calf spine with gilt title and banding. Tan cloth boards. All edges gilt.

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Leather. Condition: Very good. First edition. Please view the extensive photographs. The first edition of this interesting architectural work. This book is written about the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral after its bombing during 1940.  The title Phoenix At Coventry refers to the building rising from the ashes, which has been built next to the remains of the old building. The old building was kept in ruins as a garden of remembrance, with the new Cathedral built alongside. The author of this work, Basil Spence was the architect for the new Cathedral and this work discusses the different stages for the rebuild. He was later knighted for his work on the Cathedral. With a foreword by the fifth Bishop of Coventry. Illustrated throughout, with forty five plates consisting of colour and monochrome plates of the interiors, exteriors, plans and the site.