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Examples of Gothic architecture : selected from various antient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large; calculated to exemplify the various styles, and the practical construction of this admired class of architecture: accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts

Archive Print Item: YAS 0219

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Type of record: Book

Title: Examples of Gothic architecture : selected from various antient edifices in England: consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large; calculated to exemplify the various styles, and the practical construction of this admired class of architecture: accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts

Level: Item

Classmark: YAS 0219

Creator(s): Pugin, Augustus Charles (1762-1832)

Additional creator(s): Willson, Edward James (1787-1854) (Other); Moyes, James (1838) (Printer)

Related people: Willson, Edward James; Moyes, James

Publisher: printed for the author, Augustus Pugin, 105, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1831

Language: English

Size and medium: xviii, 4, 66 p., [75] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/498330

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010371369705181

Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society

Description

"May be regarded as... a continuation of ... 'Specimens [of Gothic architecture]' ... published in two volumes 4to by A. Pugin ... 3d edition, 1825" -- p. [ix]


Issued in parts.


Plates are etchings and include added title-page; one plate is hand coloured.


Added t.p. dated 1830 and designated "Vol. 1": two further volumes appeared in 1836 and 1838.


Includes index.

Additional description

"The Chorley gift" - label on front pastedown. Binding has spine title: Gothic architecture. Front free endpaper has signature: Charles Roberts Chorley, Leeds, Feb [7?] 1861

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