Scott, George Gilbert
Remarks on secular & domestic architecture, present & future.
London, John Murray 1857.
Reference: 14511
Price: £150 [convert currency]
Full Description
8vo. xii + 285 + (1)pp, (2) + 16pp publisher’s adverts. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth. A little bumped at head and foot of spine, but a good, fresh, pleasing copy.
First edition, scarcer than the second edition of 1858. Scott wrote this book to present the case for using Gothic as a style not just for churches and schools but for houses and public buildings, contending that pointed arches are perfectly compatible with the requirements of domestic architecture, and pointing to the late mediaeval town halls in the Low Countries as evidence that public buildings need not be built in renaissance or classical styles.