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A scarce first edition of this study guide for students of architecture. First edition. Scarce work. A guide to the study of architecture with chapters on working drawings, finished drawings, specification, design and much more. Witten by J. B. Roberts. Bound by Westley's & Co. London. 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 original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and fading to the spine. internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Bound by Westley's & Co. London. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 856T27
Title: Short Hints to the Student in Architecture: ...
Publisher: Whittaker & Co., London
Publication Date: 1852
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: None
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First edition.
Book Type: book
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