By Thomas Garner; Arthur Stratton
London   B. T. Batsford
16" by 13" 152, cx; 238, cxii-ccx pp
A wonderful example of the impressively illustrated two volume second edition of Garner and Stratton's study of Tudor architecture.
By Thomas Garner; Arthur Stratton

1929 The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period

London   B. T. Batsford
16" by 13" 152, cx; 238, cxii-ccx pp
A wonderful example of the impressively illustrated two volume second edition of Garner and Stratton's study of Tudor architecture.
£395.00
: 5kgs / : 961F15

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Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The revised and enlarged second edition of this work, complete in two volumes.

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and vignettes to both volumes, and with one hundred and nine monochrome plates to volume I, and ninety-nine to volume II.

Collated, complete.

This two volume architectural work was written by Thomas Garner and Arthur Stratton, with Garner being one of the leading English Gothic revival architects of the era and Stratton being an architectural historian. 

This comprehensive work studies domestic architecture from the Tudor period, including photographs and architectural designs and sketches.

With the bookplates of Marshall Sisson and Julian Limentani to front pastedowns.

Sisson was a British architectural draughtsman and printmaker known for his detailed etchings and drawings of historic buildings and landscapes, particularly those in Britain and Italy. He served as the Royal Academy's surveyor and treasurer.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Boards bright. Light fading to back strips and board perimeters. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Spotting to text block fore edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, but with spotting to first and last few leaves of each volume.

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