MCMXLVI (1946); Architectural Book Publishing Co.; hardbound; very good condition of book; boards very good with one light scratch near bottom front; no dust jacket.
 
(from p. 15) -
Six mile south of the sparwling national capital whose brick tentacles stretch out ot encircle the countryside, lies Alexandria, rising above the tidewater marshes that hug the Potomac's Southern shore.  Behind it, the wide rolling fields of Virginia, lovely in any season, stretch to the Blue Ridge.  Alexandria is today a city of over 60,000 inhabitants, vital and living, with foundries, factories, the Naval Torpedo plant and the second largest freight classification yard in the United States...
 
Alexandria's days of glory and hence of her greatest architectural activity were encompassed within the eight decades from 1750 to 1830 - that is, they approximated the similar period of greatest prosperity in Georgetown...