Author: T. F. Hunt [Thomas Frederick Hunt]
Title: Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, Adapted to Modern Habitations: With Illustrative Details Selected from Ancient Edifices
Description: London, Henry G. Bohn, 1842 . Leather. A smart copy of Thomas Frederick Hunt's guide to the means by which Tudor architecture could be adapted to Victorian era homes. First published in 1830, this edition is illustrated with thirty-seven plates. Collated, complete.An employee of the Office of Works, in this volume Thomas Frederick Hunt advocates for the use of the Tudor style in the construction of domestic buildings in the present day. He suggests various designs, and accompanies each plates with an explanation for his designs.He presents designs for three houses, a dog kennel, gate house, and further structures.With the armorial bookplate of Henry C. Stephens, of Finchley. Stephens was a businessman and Conservative Part MP from 1887 to 1900.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 quarter calf binding, with cloth covered boards. Light rubbing to back strip head and tail and joints, with fading to board heads, and to fore edge of front board. Head of each joints starting, with boards holding firm. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: Tudor Architecture thomas frederick hunt malcolm higgs architectural history thomas frederick hunt Not Stated


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