John T. Emmett — Six Essays

London , Unwin Brothers, 1891. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition copy of Six Essays by John T. Emmett. An uncommon first edition copy.A collection of six essays on architecture. The essays include The State of English Architecture, The Hope of English Architecture, The Profession of An Architect, The Bane of English Architecture, The Ethics of Urban Leaseholds and Religious Art. With in-text illustrations.  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, generally smart with some fading to the extremities and spine. Some marks to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good . Ill.: None. Good .