c1853 The Dictionary of Architecture.

Description

Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

A comprehensively illustrated work with plates throughout, presented here in a very bright condition. Exceptionally clean condition. This is a work prone to spotting and here is almost pristine. From an excellent source, being the Birmingham Patent office. Thirty plates to volume I, forty-two plates to volume II, thirty-two plates to volume III, eight plates to volume IV, twenty-three plates to volume V, seven plates to volume VI, five plates to volume VII and six plates to volume VIII. 152 plates total. A very scarce work. Uniformly bound, in a buckram binding. Tipped in to volume VII is a notice to members of the Architectural Publication Society regarding this volume's publication. The notice requests that receipt of this part may be 'at once acknowledges by post-card to Arthur Cates'. From the library of the Patent Office, with their stamps to the margins of occasional leaves. An informative work, with essays and entries compiled by noted individuals in the field.