"Philadelphia Architecture, A Guide to the City" (Fourth Edition) provides more than three hundred descriptions and photographs, both color and black and white, of the city's architecturally most significant buildings. Spanning more than three hundred years, these great buildings characterize Philadelphia as unique among American cities, comprising, as they do, nearly every style of architecture found in the United States.

Divided into four sections, "Philadelphia Architecture" proceeds chronologically from the founding of the city in 1682 into the early Federal period, through its...