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Author: Brandon, Raphael & J.Arthur
Title: An analysis of Gothick architecture : illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows, etc. and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice. New edition.
Publication: London, David Bogue 1849.
Price: Sold
Reference: 10532
Full Description
Large 4to. 2 vols. vii + (1) + 118pp, 31 + 13 + 7 litho plates, many woodcut ills in text ; (2)pp, 7 + 5 + 28 + 39 + 28 litho plates. Contemporary quarter green morocco, cloth sides, rubbed at hinges and outer corners. Jill Allibone’s copy, with her bookplates. Previously Hove Reference Library copy, with their nineteenth century bookplate and discard stamp, also with oval library stamps at foot of title leaves and on verso of plates. Title leaves a little soiled and backed with linen, text leaves and plates guarded out on linen stubs. Intermittent spotting on plates.
The Brandon brothers’ intention was to provide accurate measured illustrations of mediaeval detail intended for architects intending to build or restore parish churches. The illustrations of doors, windows, piers and arches, and so on, here bound in the second volume, are arranged by style (Norman, “Semi Norman”, Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular), while other groups of plates, here bound in the first volume, are of woodwork and metalwork, with an appendix section. A helpful feature is that the location of each detail illustrated is identified, enabling the reader to see which churches the Brandons had visited and drawn. First published in 1847 (and reissued several times during the nineteenth century).