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A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · 1902 · New York : The Macmillan company · 347 pictures

Russell Sturgis's three-volume Dictionary of Architecture and Building, published by Macmillan in New York from 1902, compiled alphabetical entries on terms, buildings, and architects for American architects, students, and builders. Halftone photographs and line plates document structures worldwide, from Japanese timber pagodas to European masonry detail, offering plans, sections, moldings, and full building elevations in plain documentary framing.

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