The Student's Instructor in Drawing and Working the Five Orders of Architecture

Peter Nicholson

Published by M. Taylor, London, 1839

An illustrated copy of The Student's Instructor in Drawing and Working the Five Orders of Architecture. A seventh edition copy.The Student's Instructor in Drawing and Working the Five Orders of Architecture fully explains the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings, diminishing and gluing columns and capitals, finding the true diameter with examples.Peter Nicholson was a Scottish architect and engineer.With forty one plates.Collated, complete.With adverts to the front of the volume. 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, worn with marks to the boards and spine and rubbing to the head of the spine. Previous owner inscription to the rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright pages which are generally clean. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 856B66

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Student's Instructor in Drawing and ...
Publisher: M. Taylor, London
Publication Date: 1839
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Not Stated
Condition: Very Good
Book Type: book