Thomas Morris — A House for the Suburbs

London , Simpkin Marshall & Co, 1870 . Cloth. A third edition copy of A House for the Suburbs, with folding plates. A third edition copy. A House for the Suburbs is written by Thomas Morris and is a guide for the building of a house in the suburbs with social ad architectural sketches. Morris considers costs, style, materials, semi-detached houses, compact houses and decorative architecture. With a folding frontispiece and one other folding plate and 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, very smart with light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .