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Author: Architectural Magazine
Title: The Architectural Magazine and journal of improvement in architecture, building, and furnishing, and in the various arts and trades connected therewith. Conducted by J.C.Loudon.
Publication: London, 1834-8 (facsimile reprint, Cornmarket Reprints 1972).
Price: Sold
Reference: 10328
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8vo. Vols 1-5. (12) + viii + 396pp ; viii + 564pp ; viii + 600pp ; ix + (1) + 700pp. Each vol has woodcut text ills and diagrams. Publisher’s cloth. Jill allibone’s copy, with her bookplate.
Facsimile reprint of the five volumes, all published, of J.C. Loudon’s Architectural Magazine, the first English-language periodical specifically devoted to architecture. It had the dual aim of improving public taste in architecture and of providing practical information for the benefit of younger architects and builders, and it attracted contributions from a number of well-known architects and architectural writers, most notably the young John Ruskin, who contributed a series of articles on “The Poetry of Architecture” under the pseudonym Kata Phusin. It followed the publication by Loudon of the first edition of his celebrated Encyclopaedia of Cottage Farm and Villa Architecture, and it made a similar contribution to encouraging the construction of small houses in simple architectural styles suitable for Australia and other distant parts of the English-speaking world. Hard to find both in the original edition and in this 1972 reprint (which has a foreword by the late Ben Weinreb).