A History of the Gothic Revival: An attempt to show how the taste for medieval architecture which lingered in England during the last two centuries has since been encouraged and developed

Eastlake, Charles L.

Edité par Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872, London, 1872

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First edition. xvi, 428, [2] publisher's ads pp. With 48 black and white plates. Publisher's patterned cloth with gilt decoration and bevelled edges. Slight rubbing to extremities, and binding is slightly shaken. A few spots to endleaves, and the occasional light mark, but pages are overall clean and presentable. Previous owner's stamp to half title - Geo M. Arnold of Milton Hall, who was Mayor of Gravesend, Milton Hall being his red brick Gothic Revival home designed by George Somers Clarke. Though known as a furniture designer and his earlier 'Hints on Household Taste' (1968), this book was published at the peak of the Gothic Revival movement in the late 19th century, when Eastlake was Secretary to the Royal Institute of British Architects, which he had been since 1966. This key book covers architects, societies, literature and buildings that anchored the Gothic Revival Movement, mostly in Britain from 1650 to 1870. A VG first edition copy in its original Victorian binding. 4to.

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• Titre: A History of the Gothic Revival: An attempt to show how the taste for medieval architecture which lingered in England during the last two centuries has since been encouraged and developed
• Éditeur: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872, London
• Date de parution: 1872
• Reliure: Decorative Cloth
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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