Architecture

Smith, Thomas Roger

Published by Sampson Low Marston, London, 1893

About this Item

SUBTITLED : `Gothic and Renaissance '. The book opens with a 32 page ` illustrated glossary of technical words. Think : plaster and baluster - among others. Learn more about : transepts. cinquefoiled, vaults, Eltham Palace, workmanship, cloister, pendentives, Church of St. Barbara at Kuttenberg, Siena, Victoria Tower, and receding arches. The b/w drawings in these 233 pages are, like the one of Jacques Coeur's house on page 15, very intricate - but UNattributed. Cond : Boards are khaki brown with a brown leather spine band. (One inch piece missing at top.) Gilt lettering at spine. White - if toned - end-papers. Issued w/o dust jacket (??) Tight in binding. Clean. No names nor marks. Almost collectible ! ! UNcommon in North America. Quote (p. 21) : " The duration o (ibid.) each of these coincides approximately with the century, the transition from each phase to the next taking place chiefly in the last quarter of the century. Adding the periods of the English types of round arched architecture, we obtain the following table - ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 013455

Bibliographic Details

Title: Architecture

Publisher: Sampson Low Marston, London

Publication Date: 1893

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: B/W Diagrams

Condition: Very Good -

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition.