1835 An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquests to the Reformation

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound

A fourth edition copy. 

An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquests to the Reformation also has a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders, notices of numerous British edifices and some remarks on the architecture of a part of France. 

With fourteen plates and a frontispiece. 
Collated, complete.

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’.