A Manual of Gothic Moldings: A Practical Treatise on Their Formations, Gradual Development, Combinations, and Varieties

London : John Van Voorst , 1848. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Not Stated. A second edition copy of A Manual of Gothic Moldings, with illustrations and from the library of Malcolm Higgs. A second edition.A Manual of Gothic Moldings: A Practical Treatise on Their Formations, Gradual Development, Combinations, and Varieties, with full direction for copying them and for determining their dates. With twenty one plates to the rear and other in-text illustrations.Collated, complete. With adverts to the rear.F. A. Paley was an English classical scholar.  From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, with a stamp to the front free endpaper. Malcolm Higgs was an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some bumping to the head and tail of the spine. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, with a stamp to the front free endpaper. Previous owner inscriptions to the front endpapers and reverse of the rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good