Author: William Rotch Ware [ed.]
Title: Topical Architecture: Ecclesiology I
Description: New York, The American Architect, 1905 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce architectural study of ecclesiastical pulpits, fonts and organ cases, illustrated with eighty-four plates. A very scarce first edition.Edited by American architect William Rotch Ware, who took courses in architecture at MIT before traveling to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts.Ecclesiology volume I of the journal 'Topical Architecture: A Library of Classified Architectural Motives and Details&apos.All volumes of 'Topical Architecture' are very scare.Illustrated with eighty-four photographic and illustrated plates.Collated, complete.Fonts, pulpits and organ cases throughout Europe are depicted, including those in the Cathedral of Messina, St Mark's in Venice, and those in Prussia, Florence, New York, England and Ireland.Rebound, with endpapers renewed. With library stamps to front and rear free endpapers, and with the perforated stamp of the Brooklyn Public Library to the title page and throughout the work.A prior volume of this work had been devoted to Ecclesiastical domes. Rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent. Stamps to front and rear free endpaper. Hinges strained but firmly held. Internally, binding strained throughout, with title page and following five leaves detached and loosely inserted, with twenty-two further plates detached and loosely inserted, and with a number of gatherings working loose. Perforated library stamps throughout. Instances of neat tape repairs to page and plate fore edges. Pages bright, with the odd handling mark. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .

Keywords: topical architecture a Library of Classified Architectural Motives and Details william rotch ware pulpits fonts william rotch ware Not Stated


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