| Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England: From the Conquest to the End of the Thirteenth Century Contributor(s): Turner, Thomas Hudson (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108073484 ISBN-13: 9781108073486 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $53.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Residential - History |
| Dewey: 728 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.31 lbs) 472 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, and gives examples of surviving buildings, from grand to modest, all over England, as well as reproducing documents throwing light on the painting and decoration of medieval buildings. |
