1876 The Habitations of Man in all ages

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

Translated from the French by Benjamin Bucknall. First edition thus. 

Illustrated with coloured frontispiece as well as eight full page plates in black and white and numerous illustrations in the text. Collated, complete. With half title.

A fascinating and complete history of the origin and development of domestic architecture among all mankind, with chapters concerned with methods used to build human dwellings as well as the appearance and manners of their inhabitants from prehistoric to contemporary times. 

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and author known for his restoration of some of the most prominent medieval landmarks in France, including the Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne, and Roquetaillade castle in the Bordeaux region.

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’.