Matthew Digby Wyatt an Inaugural Lecture

Nikolaus Pevsner

Edité par Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge, 1950

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A very smart first edition of this lecture on Matthew Digby Wyatt, with illustrations to the rear. First edition. Illustrated with six plates to the rear. Collated complete. A lecture on Sir Matthew Digby Myatt, a British architect and art historian who worked as Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. He was also honorary secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1855 until 1859, and in 1866 received the Royal Gold Medal. Written by Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, a German-British art historian and architectural historian. 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 original beige cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear only. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light shelf wear and a small closed tear to the head of the spine which has been sympathetically repaired with tape to the internal side. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Matthew Digby Wyatt an Inaugural Lecture
• Éditeur: Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 1950
• Reliure: Cloth
• Illustrateur: None
• Édition: First edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good Indeed
• Type de livre: book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Art