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Author: (Birmingham Architectural Association )
Title: Birmingham Architectural Association Sketch Book. Vol.2. 1878.
Publication: Birmingham, J.L.Allday 1878 (but 1878-80).
Price: £160
Reference: 11310
Full Description
Folio. Decorative litho title leaf, printed leaf with list of plates, (50) litho plates. Publisher’s printed boards, cloth spine (spine slightly splitting). No ownership inscription but Sir Howard Colvin’s copy.
The second of the two very rare published volumes of the Birmingham Architectural Association’s Sketch Book. It was modelled on similar architectural sketch book publications of the period, offering lithographic reproductions of measured drawings of mediaeval churches and other historic buildings made by pupils and assistants in the offices of Birmingham-based architects of the period. Although the title leaf carries the date 1878 and the majority of the plates are from drawings done in or before that year, plate 3 in the volume is from a drawing dated 5 January 1880, indicating that the list of plates and the order of plates in the volume were not finalised until after that date.