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Author: Axon, W.E.A. (ed)
Title: An architectural and general description of the Town Hall, Manchester. To which is added a report of the inaugural proceedings, September 1877.
Publication: Manchester & London, Abel Heywood & Son 1878.
Price: £420
Reference: 05839
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Folio. xi + (1) + 97 + (1)pp, one double-page coloured litho plate, 10 photo litho plates (one double-page), one wood-engraved plate and 2 wood-engraved text ills (one full-page). Publisher’s decorative cloth, gilt, spine repaired, worn at corners.
An excellent contemporary description of Alfred Waterhouse’s Manchester Town Hall building, and of the ceremonies connected with its opening. Manchester Town Hall, built to Waterhouse’s designs between 1868 and 1877, was, in the eyes of the editor, “the greatest monument of Mr Waterhouse’s architectural powers”, and the splendid colour lithograph plate illustrating it when newly built shows how striking and effective the design was. The interior of the building is also well illustrated from drawings by Raffles Davison. NUC records one copy only, at Boston Public Library.