THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF POINTED OR CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE: SET FORTH IN TWO LECTURES DELIVERED AT ST. MARIE'S, OSCOTT

Book Description

London: John Weale, 1841.. [4],67,[1]pp. Quarto. Publisher's quarter calf and gilt decorated green cloth, a.e.g. Frontis, nine plates and many illustrations. Title, frontis and colophon printed in red and black. Backstrip rubbed, with small chip at toe of upper joint, a few small spots to cloth, scattered foxing, but a good copy. First edition. Pugin "was the first to reduce to axioms the fundamental relationship of structure and ornament in architecture, and the first productive architect of modern times who gave a complete, serious, and rational study to the details and inner spirit of mediæval architecture" - DNB. This copy was not bound up with the extensive Weale terminal catalogue that weighs down many copies.

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