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A series of ornamental timber gables : from existing examples in England and France, of the sixteenth century

Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, Ferrey, Benjamin, 1810-1880, Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854 · 1831 · London : Published by A. Pugin, at his office, 105, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and sold by J. Taylor, architectural library, 59, High Holborn, and Priestley and Weale, High Street, Bloomsbury · 29 pictures

A measured-drawing folio of 1831 issued by A. Pugin in London with Benjamin Ferrey and Edward James Willson, recording sixteenth-century carved timber gables surviving in England and France for architects, builders and carvers. The engraved plates show gable apexes in elevation and detail, with pierced tracery panels, scrolling vine bargeboards, crockets, finials, pendants and cusped spandrels drawn as clean outline against blank ground.

Gables · Decoration and ornament, Architectural

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