James Barr — Anglican Church Architecture with Some Remarks on Ecclesiastical Furniture

Oxford, John Henry Parker , 1842. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this fascinating architectural work with illustrations. A first edition copy. Anglican Church Architecture with Some Remarks on Ecclesiastical Furniture is written by James Barr and explores the architecture of the various parts of a church. With twenty plates and many in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. With adverts to the rear. 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, smart with some splitting to the head of the spine and fading to the spine. Previous owner inscription to the front pastedown and page after the front free endpaper. Front hinge is starting but remains firm. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with some scattered spots to the front and rear of the volume. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .