1867 The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

First published in 1850, this fourth edition is illustrated with thirteen plates, and further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.

Considered to be Roberts' most important publication, this work presents architectural plans and elevations of actual and proposed dwellings for labourers, including workers' cottages and lodgings for unmarried labourers.

An important work on philanthropic housing, published for the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, and with much consideration placed on healthy living standards. For the Society, Roberts designed a number of buildings that represented innovations in workers' housing, including the houses in Lower Road, Pentonville, London and the famous model dwellings in Streatham Street, Bloomsbury. 

Roberts, who employed Gothic Revival architect George Gilbert Scott as his assistant, made his name designing Fishmongers' Hall, and was also a founder member of the Institute of British Architects.

Undated; dated 1867 via Jisc.

From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, with his stamp to the half title.

Higgs was 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’.