BOYD HARTE, Glynn. STAMP, Gavin. ~ Temples of Power.
One of 250 copies (this unnumbered), signed by author and artist. 16 lithographs by Glynn Boyd Harte, printed at The Curwen Press on Van Gelder all-rag, mould-made paper. Type set in Monotype Walbaum. Oblong folio, 17.5 x 13 inches, original quarter blue cloth over patterned paper covered board, with a repeated pattern of Battersea Power Station in red, in the original dust wrapper with a panoramic view towards Battersea Power Station. Jacket chipped and rubbed at edges with a couple of marks but generally a very good copy.
John Betjeman writes of Boyd Harte in his foreword, “electricity has inspired him wth its cleanness and invisibility”. Boyd Harte’s lithographs of London power stations and former generating, lighting and sub-stations are arresting in their simple, colourful strength.
At the time of publication Temples of Power sparked a great interest in power stations amongst historians and is regarded by many to be directly responsible for the remodelling of Bankside Power Station as Tate Modern.