Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture Present & Future

George Gilbert Scott

Verlag: John Murray, London, 1858

Beschreibung

A second edition copy of this work on domestic architecture by George Gilbert Scott. A second edition copy.Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture Present & Future explores the state of domestic architecture in the mid 1800s, the revival of pointed architecture, external and internal features, materials and restorations.George Gilbert Scott was a prolific Gothic Revival architect who designed St Pancras Station and other notable buildings.With two pages of adverts to the rear. 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 bumping to the head and tail of the spine, more so to the tail. Some fading to the spine. Front hinge is starting but remains generally firm. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 856B38

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture ...

Verlag: John Murray, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1858

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Good

Art des Buches: book