The Builder, An Illustrated Weekly Magazine for the Architect, Engineer, Operative, and Artist
Published by The Builder Publishing Office 1862-1878, London, 1862
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
AbeBooks seller since May 18, 2007
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 1,495.00
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An impressive run of the incredibly popular 'Builder' magazine, an illustrated architectural monthly publication exploring diverse feats of design and architecture. An impressive set of four volumes and a further forty-three issues of the important architectural magazine 'The Builder', with the dates of these issues and volumes reaching from February 1862 to December 1878.'The Builder' was founded by Joseph Aloysius Hansom in 1843. Under the editorship of George Godwin the magazine became an important and successful professional architectural magazine. An important periodical, it offers an interesting insight into the developments in architecture during the year, with in-depth articles on various prominent buildings being built or proposed.During these years, the magazine was edited by architect George Godwin, who turned the magazine into the "most important and successful professional paper of its kind".Including articles of many interesting national, global, historical, and contemporary feats of architecture and design, such as; Blackfriars bridge; Overstone Hall; the Bridge of Avignon; the proposed Paris Popular Opera House; the New Academy of Plastic Arts in Vienna; Dean Milman's Tomb; the new pulpit of Durham Cathedral and Knightsbridge Barracks.Four volumes of the periodical are present here:Volume XX, Parts II, III and IV, from February to April 1862. With twenty-eight illustrations. Collated, complete.Bound together, but lacking the original wraps, are Vol XXIV nos. 1237 to 1247, from October 20 1866 - December 29 1866. With twenty-one plates. Collated, completeWith 43 individual issues, retaining their original wraps.From Vol XXXIV:Nos. 1718, 1719, 1722, 1723, 1730, 1732, 1747, 1758, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1764, and 1768, from January 8, 1876 to December 23, 1876.Illustrated with two double page plates, and twenty-nine further plates. Collated, complete.From Vol XXXV:Nos. 1772, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1797, 1798, 1801, 1802, 1812, 1814, 1815, from January 20, 1877 to November 17, 1877.Illustrated with two double page plates, and twenty-nine further plates. Collated, complete.From Vol XXXVI:Nos. 1822, 1823, 1826, 1829, 1833, 1837, 1842, 1843, 1845, 1852, 1857, 1861, 1863, 1868, 1871 from January 5, 1878 to December 14, 1878.Illustrated with two double page plates, and forty-one further plates. Collated, complete.In addition to the plates, each volume and issue is also illustrated with full-paged and in-text illustrations. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, generally smart. Pencil inscriptions to head of vol XX part II front wrap, and significant spotting to part IV front wrap. Vol XX parts with closed tears and losses of paper to back strips. Vol XXIV lacking wraps. Individual issue wraps significantly age toned, with chipping and closed tears to wrap perimeters, and small ink spots to front wrap of earliest issues. Front wrap of No. 1772 tenderly held to head only. Internally, firmly bound, with individual issues unbound as issued. Pages bright and generally clean. Individual issue leaves largely unopened. Very Good.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Builder, An Illustrated Weekly Magazine for the Architect, Engineer, Operative, and Artist
- Author
- George Godwin [ed.]
- Publisher
- The Builder Publishing Office 1862-1878, London
- Publication year
- 1862
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Illustrator
- Various
- Item weight
- 8 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 14" by 9.5"
- Seller catalogs
- Periodicals & Magazines
Rooke Books PBFA
Bath, United Kingdom
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Thompson Acquisitions Ltd
The Dispensary, 8 Cleveland Pl, 8 Cleveland Place East
Bath, United Kingdom BA1 5DJ
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