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Title on front cover + title page + 40 pages engravings on single sided pages ( 32 single page engravings + 3 illustrations are double page engravings.). Condition Binding good to poor as needs rebinding, gilt embossed front cover good, almost detached, rear fair, mostly good, side is mildly water stained, lacks spine. Contents good, title page foxed, engraving mostly very good, some minor ageing, finger marks, no inscriptions. Title page not a standard title page has The following drawings have been carefully selected from the "Civil engineers and architects' journal" for the last four years with the view of introducing to the notice of the profession the best example of churches chapels & mansions and more text ends with Birmingham 1866 . Then the plates. No author, publisher or proper title. From BL it would appear there was a book titled Examples of modern architecture ecclesiastical and domestic, consisting of views and plans of executed works by various architects. With a variant title Executed examples of churches chapels & mansions Published by S. Birbeck, Bookseller &c, Birmingham, [1873]. As same as on front coverCover title: Executed examples of churches, chapels, & mansion £2-2 -0. the engraving are by the experienced architectural draughtsman John Richard Jobbins. The same as this so presume this copy we have was the original and the 1873 was a later and edition with more plates. There was also an 1870 enlarged American with the variant title. Our edition the architects include Walter Scott, John P. Seddon; R.J.Withers, E.L.Blackburne, G.F.Bodley; John Johnson. W. & G Audsley, John Newton, John Taylor and others, most are in England with at least one by an English artist of a church in Europe. From a quick net check only found 5 copies in institutions, but we were unable to find another 1866 edition for sale Size: 25 x 32cm. Approx. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002832
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