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001 $ 06/4841
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20200128121216.0
035 # # $z 5882
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
245 1 0 $a Transactions Of The Royal Institute of British Architects of London: $b Incorporated in the Seventh Year of William IV. $f Sessions 1835-36. $n Vol I. Part I.
250 # # $a Second Edition, With Corrections and Additions. [Epigraph]
260 # # $a London $b Published At The Rooms Of The Institute, 16, Grosvenor Street; And By John Weale, Architectural Bookseller, High Holborn; And J. Williams, Library Of Arts, Great Russell Street $c 1839
300 # # $a x, 10-29, 127 pages, 10 plates: $b illus.; $c 305 mm.
500 # # $a The printer statement on the verso of the title-page reads, 'J. Davy, Printer, Queen Street, King Street, Long Acre, London.' The final, folded, plate is found at the end of the volume and is a facsimile of the autograph signatures of the Honorary and Corresponding Members of the Institute.
505 0 # $a This volume consists of lists of Council members, Fellows, Honorary Fellows, Honorary Members, Honorary and Corresponding Members and Associates (p. v-x); an Address from the Council to the Members, upon laying before them the Charter of Incorporation, at the Ordinary Meeting, held Monday, 6th February, 1837 (p. 11-12); The Charter (p. 13-16); Regulations of the Institute (p. 17-29). This is followed by essays and papers presented at meetings of the Institute grouped by subjects:

Construction [Prize essay upon the nature and properties of concrete, and its application to construction up to the present period, by George Godwin, jun. Associate (p. 1-37); A letter from Robert Abraham, Esq. Architect, on the concrete used at Westminster new Bridewell (p. 38-39); An account of the method used in underpinning with concrete the long storehouse at His Majesty's Dock Yard, Chatham, in the year 1834, by George L. Taylor, Fellow (p. 40-43); On terrace roofs, by Charles Fowler, Honorary Secretary (p. 47-51); On Whinstone construction, by Messrs Smith of Darnick, N.B. (p. 52-60); Particulars of some experiments made by M. J. Brunel, Esq. C.E. and F.R.S. &c. on the mode of binding brick construction (p. 61-64); Description of the pavilion erected at Edinburgh for the Festival in honor of Earl Grey, September 1834, by Thomas Hamilton, Fellow (p. 65-70)];

Antiquities [On the polychromy of Greek architecture, from the German by Kugler, by W. R. Hamilton, Esq., Honorary Fellow (p. 73-99); Account of the ruins of the city of Anni, in Armenia, extracted from the Journal of W. J. Hamilton, Esq. (p. 100-104); On the newly discovered crypt at York Minster, by P. F. Robinson, Vice President (p. 105-108);

and. Literature, &c [On the benefits resulting to the manufactures of a country from a well directed cultivation of architecture, and of the art of ornamental design, by J. B. Papworth, Vice President (p. 111-114); Some particulars relating to manuscripts preserved in various European libraries, by Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Honorary Secretary, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, p. (115-125); W. Murray, Esq. Architect, Dublin, some particulars relative to the District Lunatic Asylums established in Ireland under the Commissioners for General Control (p. 126-127).

563 # # $a Spine labelled in gold lettering, 'Transactions of the Institute of British Architects, 1835.6.'
610 2 4 $a Royal Institute of British Architects (London)
653 # # $a Architecture Periodicals $a Architecture Great Britain Periodicals
700 1 # $a Weale, John $e publisher/bookseller
700 1 # $a Williams, J. $e publisher/bookseller
700 1 # $a Davy, John $e printer
710 2 # $a Royal Institute of British Architects (London) $e publisher
710 2 # $a Day and Haghe (London) $e lithographic printer