Robert Kerr — The Consulting Architect: Practical Notes on Administrative Difficulties and Disputes

London , John Murray , 1886. Cloth. A very rare bright edition of The Consulting Architect by Robert Kerr. A second edition of this volume, with the first being published the year before. Kerr write extensively on the practical aspects of country house building. This is a rare book on running a Victorian Architect's practice. The Consulting Architect: Practical Notes on Administrative Difficulties and Disputes is written by Robert Kerr and aims to exhibit the principles which the architect has to deal with and the various classes of difficulties and disputes connected with the building affairs. 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. Externally, very smart with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and top extremity. Previous owner inscription to the half title page. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .