An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation

Thomas Rickman

Verlag: John Henry Parker, London, 1848

Beschreibung

A fifth edition copy of this work on English architecture by Thomas Rickman. A fifth edition copy.An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation also has a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders, with notices of numerous British edifices and some remarks on the architecture of a part of France.Thomas Rickman was an English architect and architectural antiquary.With twenty eight plates and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.Previous owner pencil inscriptions to the front free endpaper for A. P. S. Duty. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with some bumping to the head and tail of the spine, small split to the head of the spine. Previous owner pencil inscriptions to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece is loosening from the binding. The rest of the volume is firmly bound with generally bright pages with some scattered spots throughout. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 856B47

Bibliografische Details

Titel: An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of ...

Verlag: John Henry Parker, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1848

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Not Stated

Zustand: Good

Art des Buches: book