1841 · London
by Pugin, A. Welby [Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin]
London: Charles Dolman, 1841. Second Edition. Very good in modern quarter leather over marbled boards with minor scattered foxing throughout, primarily to edges.. Second edition of Pugin's groundbreaking work which arguably defined the Gothic Revival in architecture.
With a total of 20 plates, an addition of 5 plates (and omission of 1) from the first edition, this second edition adds the notable plates whereby Pugin shows contrasting views of English Catholic towns in 1440 versus 1880, and ancient homes for the poor versus the modern-Victorian panopticon workhouses, and in which he of course laments and "exposed the degrated [sic] state of (truncated)
With a total of 20 plates, an addition of 5 plates (and omission of 1) from the first edition, this second edition adds the notable plates whereby Pugin shows contrasting views of English Catholic towns in 1440 versus 1880, and ancient homes for the poor versus the modern-Victorian panopticon workhouses, and in which he of course laments and "exposed the degrated [sic] state of (truncated)