An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture, from the Conquest to the Reformation

Thomas Rickman

Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1819

A second edition copy of this work on English architecture by Thomas Rickman, with illustrations. A second edition copy.An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture, from the Conquest to the Reformation is preceded by a Sketch of Grecian and Roman Orders.Thomas Rickman was an English architect and architectural antiquary and was a major figure in the Gothic Revival.With fourteen plates.Collated, complete. 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 half morocco with marbled boards. Externally, smart with some fading and rubbing to the spine, joints and extremities. With some marks to the boards. With an ownership stamp to the front free endpaper for Malcolm Higgs and a bookplate to the front pastedown for Robert Pentland. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good. Seller Inventory # 856B60

Bibliographic Details

Title: An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of ...
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London
Publication Date: 1819
Binding: Leather
Illustrator: Not Stated
Condition: Good
Book Type: book