John Belcher; Mervyn Macartney — Later Renaissance Architecture in England

London, B. T. Batsford, 1901. First edition. Cloth. Illustrated with one-hundred and seventy plates, this is the first two volume edition of this enormously impressive study of domestic Elizabethan era architecture. The first edition thus of this work following this work's publication in parts from 1897. Complete in two volumes.Consisting of sheets loosely inserted in two cloth publisher's portfolio bindings, with cloth ties.An extensive and comprehensive architectural study of late Renaissance England, with introductory and descriptive text by John Belcher and Mervyn E. Macartney. Featuring one hundred and seventy plates - eighty-five to each volume - and numerous further illustrations in text, illustrative of the domestic buildings which appeared following the Elizabethan period. Collated, complete. Sheets loosely inserted in the publisher's original cloth portfolio bindings, with cloth ties. Externally, boards age toned, with fading to back strips. Bumping to back strip heads and tails. Volume II front joint tail, and volume I joint tails starting, with boards firmly held. Lacking two ties to volume II, and one to volume I. Paper labels to front board of each portfolio. Internally, sheet loosely inserted. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot. Light worming to tail of first ten leaves of volume I, not affecting text. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .