Examples of Modern Architecture, Ecclesiastical and Domestic. Sixty-Four Views of Churches & Chapels, Schools, Colleges, Mansions, Town Halls, Railway Stations, Etc. (Many with Plans attached.)
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. First American edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. (4)pp, 64 plates with tissue guards. Original brown cloth with gilt-stamped lettering, decor and blind-stamped decorative ruling on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Red edges. Dark green endpaper. Title page printed in red and black.
Architecture erected from the designs of G. G. Scott, G. E. Street, J. P. Seddon, E. G. Paley, R. J. Withers, J. K. Colling, E. L. Blackburne, G. F. Bodley, E. B. Lamb, J. Johnson, E. I'Anson and other eminent architects. The designs presented in this volume are considered unfamiliar designs by mostly well-known English architects. They were redrawn for this publication by the the architectural draughtsman John Richard Jobbins, rendered in lithography.
The first thirty-eight plates show designs for ecclesiastical buildings, the plates following show town halls, the Peabody Trust Building, railway stations, schools and colleges, the Masonic Hall in Manchester, Brill's Bath and other designs, including stucco. Many of the designs with ground plans of the respective buildings, some are double-page. Contains list of drawings at front. Binding with some scuffing along edges. Closed tear of two and a half inches at bottom gutter of inside front cover. Some light foxing of free endpapers. Goo to very good condition. Item #49363
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