Author: Edward M Barry; Alfred Barry [ed.]
Title: Lectures on Architecture Delivered at the Royal Academy
Description: London, John Murray , 1881. First edition. Cloth. Collection of lectures on architecture delivered by Edward M Barry, the scarce first edition. The first edition of this work, a very scarce volume rarely seen in commerce. Edited with an introductory memoir by Alfred Barry. Published a year after the author's death. Photographic plate tipped in to frontispiece. Collated, complete with twenty illustrations. Containing a series of lectures on architecture and art delivered by Edward Middleton Barry, English architect in the nineteenth century. He is known for his many contributions to the London architectural scene, including the Theatre of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. His lectures often discussed the relationship of architecture with other branches of the arts.  From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine, boards only lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with only minor staining mark to lower margin of plates, not affecting the illustration. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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