1879 Lectures on The Rise and Development of Mediaeval Architecture

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First Edition, Illustrated, Uncommon

The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original cloth bindings.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, 14 plates and numerous further illustrations accompanying the text to volume I. Illustrated with a frontispiece, 9 plates and numerous further illustrations accompanying the text to volume II. Collated, complete.

Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878) was an English Gothic Revival architect, mainly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals. This is his two volume work on the development of Medieval architecture, containing lectures delivered on this subject at the Royal Academy.

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’.