Lectures on Church-Buildings: With Some Practical Remarks on Bells and Clocks

Edmund Beckett Denison

Published by Bell and Daldy, London, 1856

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A second edition copy of Lectures on Church-Buildings: With Some Practical Remarks on Bells and Clocks, with illustrations. A second edition copy.Lectures on Church-Buildings: With Some Practical Remarks on Bells and Clocks, includes lectures on gothic architecture generally, early gothic styles, late gothic styles, towers and spires, church restoration and bells and clocks.Edmund Beckett Denison was a noted architect.With in-text woodcuts and a frontispiece and seven full page illustrations.Collated, complete.With adverts to the rear. 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 the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with some fading to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Light marks to the boards. Rear hinge is starting but remains firm. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good. Seller Inventory # 856B44

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lectures on Church-Buildings: With Some ...

Publisher: Bell and Daldy, London

Publication Date: 1856

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Not Stated

Condition: Good

Book Type: book