Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland : during the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries / by A.E. Richardson ; illustrated in a series of photographs, specially taken by E. Dockree ; & measured drawings of the more important neo-classic buildings, with descriptive text

Sir Albert Richardson PRA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/25

Author

Imprint

London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 94, High Holdborn, 1914

Physical Description

xvi, 123 pages, 60 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm.

General Note

The printer is named at the foot of the verso of page 123: `Printed at the Ballantyne Press, London.'

Provenance

Inscribed in ink on front free end-paper, "To Osmund Bellamy, In appreciation of help cheerfully given on measured drawings illustrated herein, S. Georges Day. 1914. A.R. Richardson."
'Presented by Miss V. Bellamy, .... in memory of Osmund Belllamy, an architect and early student of Professor A. E. Richardson, R.A., who was killed in the Great War, 1914-18.' ; accessioned 22 February 1949 (RA Library Accessions Register, 1949-61).

Copy Note

The front pastedown carries a 20th century Royal Academy of Arts bookplate on which is written: `In memory of Osmund Bellamy’

Binding Note

Publishers blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration to upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt.

Subject

Architecture - Classical - Great Britain
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Architecture - [18th Century - United Kingdom]
Architecture - [19th Century - United Kingdom]

Contributors