Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain

George Edmund TSreet

Published by John Murray, London, 1869

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The second edition of George Edmund Street's survey of Gothic architecture in Spain in signed Birdsall & Son binding. The second edition of this work. Rebound in half morocco signed Birdsall & Son.Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page, twenty-five lithographic plates, of which seventeen folding, fifty-two plates including frontispiece, title vignette, and numerous illustrations in text. Collated, complete.An extensive look into the gothic architecture of Spain, with chapters dedicated to the beautiful architectural features around the country, including Santiago de Compostella, Medina del Campo, Toledo, Valencia, Barcelona, &c. With historical notes and general.Written by George Edmund Street, English architect, key player Victorian Gothic Revival movement. He is known as the designed of the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in 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". Rebound in half morocco over cloth covered boards, with titles in gilt to morocco spine label, gilt tooling to spine and extremities, renewed endpapers. Decorative edges. Externally generally smart with light wear to extremities, joints and spine rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to first and last few leaves only, pages otherwise bright and clean. Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain
• Publisher: John Murray, London
• Publication Date: 1869
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: Not Stated
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book