[Rarebooks] OFFER: PIONEER STUDY OF ENGLISH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.

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RICKMAN, THOMAS:  AN ATTEMPT TO DISCRIMINATE THE STYLES OF ENGLISH 
ARCHITECTURE, FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE REFORMATION; preceded by a sketch of 
the Grecian and Roman orders, with notices of nearly five hundred English 
buildings. London, Longman (etc.) nd (plates dated 1 July 1817). 8vo., [22 
cm.], iv + (2) + 146pp, 14 engr plates, (plate XIII bound as frontispiece). 
First edition in book form of Rickman's celebrated investigation into 
Gothic architecture, which was to establish reliable guidelines for 
classification of English mediaeval buildings as being either Norman or 
early English or Decorated or Perpendicular. Rickman had originally written 
a shorter version of it as an article for the Liverpool-published 
periodical Panorama of Science and Art in 1815. 'This, the first systematic 
treatise on Gothic architecture in England, soon became well known, and 
Rickman's nomenclature was followed by all subsequent writers on the 
subject' (Colvin), and it was to run to six further editions between 1819 
and 1881. Although this edition carries the imprint of the Longman 
publishing partnership in London, both text and plates were printed in 
Liverpool. NUC records only one copy in North American libraries (NYPL). 
OCLC adds 4 Locs. [Col. U, SUTRO, YUS, DRU] Brit. Arch. Lib. Cat 2764. 
Original marbled boards, new spine, printed label, very light water stain 
on first few pages OW a very clean, tight copy. $400.00

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