Author: BRITTON J (edited by), PUGIN Augustus (drawn and measured by), LE KEUX John and Henry (engravings by)
Title: Specimens of the Architecture of Normandy, from the XIth to the XVIth century, measured and drawn by Augustus Pugin, architect; engraved by John and Henry Le Keux.
Description: London, Nattali 1833 80 plates of which two on stained glass are coloured, 64pp, 10pp publishers catalogue (this dated 1837) 30x23, boards, pasted on spine label. Covered rather rubbed, with small hole on front edge of spine, foxing and damp marks on most plates, text less affected, edges of pages a little rubbed, binding cracking in a few places. Important Gothic revival source book, with its fine accurate measured drawings, reissued in the 1870s in an edition edited by Spiers. Editor's Introduction explains why Nattali had felt in necessary to issue the essays separately to the engravings (to avoid the "arbitrary and oppressive" requirement to lodge no few than eleven copies of each book in public libraries, something that was prohibitive for heavily illustrated books like this); readers were then encouraged to reassemble their separate purchases. The date on the catalogue suggest that this copy was probably bound by the publisher in around 1837.

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