Macartney Mervyn B a F S a F R I B a (1 results)

Full contemporary light-brown cloth; flat spine with gilt title lettering on brown label., By 1900 ?The Architectural Review? magazine could boast that it was ?the only magazine in the British Empire dealing with the artistic, as distinguished from the business side, of architecture?, a description that rings true today. The first decade saw a long-running series, The Practical Exemplar of Architecture, with photographs and measured drawings, intended to provide architects and students of construction with a universal pattern book illustrating various architectural styles. , Size : folio (316 x 225mm), Profusely illustrated with photogravures. Vol. 1: 112 plates & Vol. 3: 6 embedded in text and 112 plates., Volume : 2 volumes; Vols. 1 and 3, Pp. vol 1: 1-8, 112 plates; vol 3: 1-8, 112 plates. Both volumes carry a Kilham and Hopkins receipt stamp of May 13, 1911. A clean, crisp exemplar.