1848-67 The Builder, an Illustrated Weekly Magazine

Description

Illustrated, Rebound

An impressive set of seventeen volumes of the important architectural magazine 'The Builder', these volumes each containing all issues for the years, ranging from the years 1848 to 1867. Uniformly rebound in a modern cloth binding.

'The Builder' was founded by Joseph Aloysius Hansom in 1843. Under the editorship of George Godwin the magazine became an important and successful professional architectural magazine.  An important periodical, it offers an interesting insight into the developments in architecture during the year, with in-depth articles on various prominent buildings being built or proposed.

During these years, the magazine was edited by architect George Godwin, who turned the magazine into the "most important and successful professional paper of its kind".  

Including articles of many interesting national, global, historical, and contemporary feats of architecture and design, such as; Japanese ornamentation, epidemic in Eastbourne due to bad drainage, memorials built for Prince Albert, how to get rid of ants, preservation of food on ice, Queen Eleanor’s Cross at Northampton, Holloway Prison, Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, stained glass in churches, the Royal Albert Hall, Christian idealism and the fine arts, income tax on houses in Kensington, damp walls, preservation of stone in Melrose Abbey, the spirit of Gothic art, the distinction on painting and illumination, and more.

Also including much information on the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition. 

Volume VI, for 1848.

Volume VIII, for 1850.

Volume IX, for 1851, illustrated with two folding plates, and thirty-eight plates.

Volume X, for 1852, illustrated with forty-seven plates.

Volume XI, for 1853, illustrated with forty-one plates.

Volume XII, for 1854, illustrated with forty-two plates. Adverts are bound in to the rear.

Volume XIII, for 1855, illustrated with thirty-two plates.

Volume XIV, for 1856, illustrated with nine plates.

Volume XV, for 1857, illustrated with eleven plates.

Volume XVI, for 1858, illustrated with twenty-eight plates.

Volume XVII, for 1859, illustrated with forty-eight plates. Bound without index.

Volume XIX, Part I, for 1861, illustrated with twenty-one plates. Adverts are bound in.

Volume XIX, Part II, for 1861, illustrated with twenty-five plates. Adverts are bound in.

Volume XX, for 1862, illustrated with forty-two plates.

Volume XXI, for 1863, illustrated with forty-five plates.

Volume XXII, for 1864, illustrated with twenty plates.

Volume XXV, for 1867, illustrated with forty-six plates.

In addition to the plates, each volume is also illustrated with full-paged and in-text illustrations. Volumes VI and VIII were issued without plates, only full-paged illustrations.