Porter, A. Kingsley — Beyond Architecture

Boston, MA, Marshall Jones Company, 1918. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Cream cloth spine with black boards. 200 pp. 9 bw plates. This small volume of architectural criticism contains eight chapters, each of which was one in a series of articles which were published by different respected periodicals, such as The Architectural Record, Architecture, Art and Archaeology, Yale Review and others. The author has made many changes to the original articles for this book. Chapters include Against Roman Architecture, Art of the Middle Age, three chapters on various aspects of Gothic Art, The Art of Giotto, Paper Architecture, and Art and The General. Includes nine excellent illustrations, all of churches and cathedrals. VG. Some toning to spine. Fore edge corners have some light fraying to paper.