Author: Edward Hull
Title: A Treatise on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Great Britain and Foreign Countries
Description: London , Macmillan and Co. 1872. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work on ornamental stones, with illustrations. A first edition copy. A Treatise on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Great Britain and Foreign Countries is arranged according to their geological distribution and mineral character with explanations on their application in ancient and modern structures. This volumes considers granite rocks, porphyritic rocks, greenstone rocks, serpentinous rocks and rarer ornamental stones. With three illustrations and a frontispiece.Collated, complete. 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 publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with fading to the spine and some bumping and splitting to the head and tail of the spine, some light marks to the boards. Front hinge is starting but remains firm. Previous owner inscription to the reverse of the frontispiece. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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