Terracotta colour buckram with bevelled edges and title in gilt on front cover. The initials H.R. are in gilt on the spine. Condition: Very good, with sunning to spine. Cover edges have light shelfwear. Binding sound, text clean. Inscription to previous owner in ink on front endpaper, dated 1897, similar inscription to reverse of rear endpaper. An unpaginated collection of examples of b/w architectural drawings and b/w watercolours by Heber Rimmer, a promising architect who died at the young age of 26 in 1895. A contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Rimmer won the presitigious Soane Medallion in 1892. Scarce.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Heber Rimmer Memorial

Publisher

Sprague & Co., London

Publication Date

1896

Language

English

Binding

Buckram

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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Architecture (19th and 20th Century)

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Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books is based in Dorset. We specialise in books on 20th Century Art, Architecture and Design.

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