An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation: with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders book by Thomas Rickman

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1881. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The sheets of this new Edition have had the benefit of supervision by the late Sir George Gilbert Scott. Partly in consequence of the extension of the work, and for other reasons, the short APPENDIX originally written by Mr. Rickman as a paper in the Arch?ologia, but added to some of the earlier editions, has been omitted. In the last edition of Rickman this had been transposed from its original place, and after being considerably extended, was made to serve as an Introduction to the medieval styles. Although the additions brought to bear upon the subject, included the material which wider research and a closer attention to his-torical data had provided from Rickman's days up to that time, the further researches since then, and the grouping of examples which the activity of local Architectural Societies has rendered possible, would, if fairly treated, have involved so large an extension, that it would have unduly increased the bulk of the volume. It was therefore thought, in the end, exp.

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An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation: with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders book by Thomas Rickman

Editor

PARKER AND CO.

Fecha de publicación

1881

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Estado

Good

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