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001 $ 07/4854
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20190813104505.9
035 # # $z 7242
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Knight
245 1 4 $a The Normans In Sicily: Being A Sequel To "An Architectural Tour In Normandy." - By Henry Gally Knight Esq., M.P. -
260 # # $a London: $b John Murray, Albemarle Street. - $c MDCCCXXXVIII. $c [1838]
300 # # $a vii, [1], 355, [1] p.: $b [2] illus.; $c 193 mm. (Duodecimo.)
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - Advertisement - Contents - Errata - [Text]; [colophon] - Other Publications Of Mr. Gally Knight.
508 # # $a In-text illustrations are unsigned.

The printer is named on the verso of the title-page and in the colophon: 'G. Woodfall, Printer, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London.'
510 0 # $a Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 2 (1995), no. 1686, p.887-8.

On H.G. Knight and the context of his work see M. Crinson, Empire building: orientalism and Victorian architecture (1996); R.W. Lightbown, 'The inspiration of Christian art', in Influences on Victorian art and architecture, ed. S. Macready and F.H. Thompson (1985); C. Mignot, Architecture of the nineteenth century in Europe (1984); N. Pevsner, Some archiectural writers of the nineteenth century (1972).
520 2 # $a The text was planned to be accompanied by Saracenic and Norman remains, to illustrate The Normans in Sicily, published ca. 1840.

The two in-text illustrations show: p.179 plan, elevation, section of an ancient Greek shrine near Malvagna; p.348 'Varieties Of The Saracenic Arch'.
561 # # $a The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'S.A:H:', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81. The front pastedown carries the 19th-century armorial bookplate of William Twopeny.
563 # # $a 19th-century calf; gilt-decorated spine, black morocco spine-label lettered 'Knight's Normans In Sicily.' The verso of the front loose endpaper carries the binder's stamp, 'Bound By Hering 9 Newman St'.
653 # # $a Architecture, Italian - Churches - Public buildings - Normans - Italy - Sicily - History - Romanesque
655 # 0 $a Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Murray $e publisher
700 1 # $a Hering $e bookbinder
700 1 # $a Woodfall $e printer
700 1 # $a Twopeny $e previous owner