Courts Of Justice Commission, 33, Lincoln's Inn Fields. New Law Courts. Block Plans And Sections Prepared By George Edmund Street, A.R.A., The Architect To The New Courts, And Approved By The Courts Of Justice Commission, 23rd July 1868. Details Added, October 1868.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/1130
Variant Title
New Law Courts. Block Plans And Sections
Imprint
[S.l.:: s.n.,, ca. 1868.]
Physical Description
[2] p., 7 pl.; 357×540 mm.
Contents
[T.p.] - Contents - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The name of the body which set up the Courts of Justice Commission is not given. The title page carries at foot the printed number 23179.
All plates carry the signature of George Edmund Street, A.R.A. and the date, Octr. 1868.
Each carries the lithographers' imprint, 'Kell Bros., lith. Castle St. Holborn.'
References
D.B. Brownlee, The Law Courts: the architecture of George Edmund Street (1984).
Summary Note
This is an interim account of G.E. Street's proposals for the Royal Courts of Justice, to be built in the Strand, London.
The plates are lithographed in color.
Copy Note
Onto the title page has been pasted an extract (p.269-72) of a printed document, carrying the printed heading 'Report from Mr. Street as to the Progress made with the Plans for the New Courts'. This appears over the printed signature of George Edmund Street and the date January 11th. 1869. The first page of the text carries the printed number 23576.
Binding Note
19th-century quarter green cloth, green papered boards, upper cover printed with same title as on title page.
Architecture - Public buildings - Courts - Great Britain - London - Royal Courts of Justice - History - 19th century - Gothic Revival
Plans - Sections - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century