1851 The Power of Form Applied to Geometric Tracery

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

A scarce first edition copy. 

This volume is an interesting mathematical study of geometry and gothic architecture. 

Illustrated with fifty double sided plates showing one hundred designed and their foundations from one diagram.
Collated, complete. 

Two pages of publisher 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’.