Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England
From Richard II to Henry VIII, with Numerous Illustrations of Existing Remains, from Original Drawings
2 Volume Set

The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806–84), a supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal Newman, was also a historian of architecture, whose two-volume Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture is also reissued in this series. In 1851, he published a volume on English domestic architecture from the Norman Conquest to 1300 by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815–52), and on Turner's death he completed the second volume, on the fourteenth century, himself. Both volumes are highly illustrated with line drawings and plans. Volume 1, after an introductory chapter about pre-Conquest buildings, discusses architectural plans, features, building materials and techniques of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Volume 2 follows a similar plan, describing elements, such as halls and chambers, common to domestic buildings of the fourteenth century, and discussing their individual features.

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Product details

• Date Published: April 2014
• format: Multiple copy pack
• isbn: 9781108073509
• length: 1012 pages

• dimensions: 216 x 140 x 30 mm
• weight: 1.28kg
• availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint