The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland From the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century.

  • Macgibbon, David and Thomas Ross
  • Edinburgh: David Douglas 1887

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 5 vols., large 8vo, pp. xvi, 584; x, 598, [2], viii [ads]; xvii, [i], 639, [1], [24, ads]; xiv, 520, [24, ads]; x, 603, [1]. Numerous illustrations included within pagination. Original taupe cloth, front boards blocked in gilt, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Some scattered spotting. A little rubbed and marked, extremities bumped. 20th century ownership inscriptions to flyleaf of vol. 1 dated 1928 and 1959, other volumes with pencil ownership inscriptions of Wm Donald to flyleaves, some scattered pencil underlining and a few marginal notes, pencil architectural sketch to rear flyleaf of vol. 5.

Notes

The first edition of architects Macgibbon and Ross's survey of Scotland's architectural heritage, which was reprinted in facsimile several times in the second half of the 20th century and is scarce in its original form. Partners in a firm of architects, Macgibbon and Ross combined their work on commissions with travelling throughout Scotland visiting the sites described in the five volumes here.

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