An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the Conquest to the Reformation; with notices of eight hundred English buildings: preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders
Thomas Rickman's 1819 survey of English medieval architecture, published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, which fixed the terms Norman, Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular for antiquarians, builders and church restorers. Line engravings by William Radclyffe give measured elevations of church bays, doorways and tracery windows, plus plates of isolated details \u2014 arch geometries, mouldings, cusped panels, crockets and finials \u2014 usable as clean vector-ready ornament and structural diagrams.
