Matthew Holbeche Bloxam — The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture

London , David Bogue, 1844. Cloth. A sixth edition copy of this popular guide to Gothic Architecture with illustrations. A sixth edition copy. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture is written by Matthew Bloxam and is a popular guide to Gothic architecture. This volume defines gothic architecture, different kinds of arches, the Anglo-Saxon style and the early English style. With many in-text illustrations.Collated, complete. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, 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 with some bumping to the head and tail of the spine with some light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .