The lives of the British architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London, Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 305
e guides to theproper understanding of the technical details of the art,which must have been of immense value to eighteenth-century architects in a variety of ways, if not exactly inthat of cultivating originality. Some four or five years after the publication of this work—to be precise, in 1737… … Hills &• Sanndirs THE KADCLIFFE LIBRAKY To face p. 243 GIBBS 243 the churches I have already mentioned, his most notableachievement: the designing and erection of the RadcliffeLibrary, at Oxford. An earlier plan for this building hadbeen prepared by Hawksmoor, but as at Kings College,Cambridge,…
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