Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1881. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The sheets of this new Edition have had the benefit of supervision by the late Sir George Gilbert Scott. Partly in consequence of the extension of the work and for other reasons the short APPENDIX originally written by Mr. Rickman as a paper in the Arch?ologia but added to some of the earlier editions has been omitted. In the last edition of Rickman this had been transposed from its original place and after being considerably extended was made to serve as an Introduction to the medieval styles. Although the additions brought to bear upon the subject included the material which wider research and a closer attention to his-torical data had provided from Rickman’s days up to that time the further researches since then and the grouping of examples which the activity of local Architectural Societies has rendered possible would if fairly treated have involved so large an extension that it would have unduly increased the bulk of the volume. It was therefore thought in the end expedient to transfer this matter to another work. It was hoped that this second work might have been pre-pared so as to be issued simultaneously with the Rickman volume and the latter was accordingly kept back for the purpose; but the publishers finding on the one hand that Rickman’s volume is much wanted. (MP)