Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans 1800-1900

Cambridge: MIT, 1989. Hardcover coffee-table book on the garden district of New Orleans, illustrated throughout with photographs old & new, plans, etc. "Starr introduces the architects, builders, craftsmen, servants and retainers and recounts the colorful details of their lives. He provides a highly readable portrait of the intertwined careers of two gifted architects who worked on the garden district- Henry Howard & Lewis Reynolds- the former among the shrewdest practioners of the architecture of flattery. And his portrayal of the career and clientage of Thomas Sully presents a series of important discoveries". VG/VG (Jacket has wear, closed tears. Now protected in a plastic sleeve. Book has some discoloration to boards and foxing on inside covers. Spine slightly cocked.).