1902 A Dictionary of Architecture and Building. Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive

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Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

An early edition of this heavily illustrated dictionary of building compiled by American architect and art critic, Russel Sturgis. Sturgis was a disciple of John Ruskin, and was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Ex-libris bookplate to the front pastedown of all three volumes. This set previously belonged to the Paul Pratt Memorial Library in Cohasset, Massachusetts. 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’.