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The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each

Britton, John, 1771-1857 · 1807 · London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, J. Taylor, Architectural Library, and the author · 137 pictures

John Britton's multi-volume survey of medieval English buildings, issued in London from 1807 by Longman and the Architectural Library for antiquaries, architects and their patrons. Engraved plates give measured elevations, plans, sections and details of cathedrals and abbeys: pointed arcades, clustered piers, capitals, mouldings and window tracery, drawn in fine line with flat grey wash and scale bars, usable as precise Gothic ornament and structural diagrams.

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