A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture. The Fourth Edition, Enlarged. Exemplified by Eleven Hundred Woodcuts. [With:] A Companion to the Fourth Edition of A Glossary of Terms […] Containing Four Hundred Additional Examples, A Chronological Table, and A General Index.

  • [Parker, John Henry]
  • Oxford: John Henry Parker 1845

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3 vols, 8vo, pp. ix, [i], 416 + frontispiece; [ii], 23, [1] + frontispiece and 166 plates; [viii], 154, [40], [38, index] + frontispiece and 4 plates. Further illustrations included within pagination. Later half calf, marbled boards, spines divided by raised bands gilt, red and green morocco labels, other compartments tooled in gilt, top edge red, other edges sprinkled red. Spotting to first few gatherings of vol. 3. Leather just a touch rubbed. Ownership inscription of C. R. Roper[?], Boston to verso of vol. 3 frontispiece.

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A set comprising the expanded two-volume fourth edition of Parker's illustrated architectural dictionary, with the companion volume advertised as being in the press in the advert in part one.

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