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Contrasts:, or,, A parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and similar buildings of the present day; : shewing the present decay of taste: accompanied by appropriate text. / By A. Welby Pugin, architect..
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1836 Pugin
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--England.
- Architecture.
- Architecture, Gothic--England.
- Architecture, Gothic.
- Church architecture--England.
- Church architecture.
- Church buildings--England.
- Church buildings.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 50, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. (4to)
- Other Title:
- Parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
- Contrasts or a parallel between the architecture of the 15th & 19th centuries
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for the author, and published by him, at St. Marie's Grange, near Salisbury, Wilts., M.DCCC.XXXVI. [1836]
- Notes:
- First edition.
- Originally issued in slip case?
- Title page in red and black.
- Added t.p reads: Contrasts, or a parallel between the architecture of the 15th & 19th centuries
- Contains [16] leaves of plates, drawn and etched by Pugin, including engraved frontispiece, added t.p., dedication leaf and tailpiece.
- Some engravings accompanied by tissue guard sheet.
- "London: printed by James Moyes, Castle Street, Leicester Square."--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy includes "Works on the architecture of the middle ages, &c. by the late Augustus Pugin...", [4] p. bound in at end, following plates.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.
- Athenaeum copy: Inscribed on front paste-down: H.L. Duhring, 1218 Chestnut St., Phila., April 28th, 1908.
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in full green cloth; housed in modern clamshell box.
- Cited in:
- Fowler, 265
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