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Development and Character of Gothic Architecture
By CHARLES HERBERT MOORE
Second Edition, Rewritten and Enlarged. With Ten Plates in Photogravure and more than 200 Illustrations in the Text
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The new edition embodies a large amount of fresh material gathered at first hand from the monuments. A considerable number of early Gothic buildings of great importance, hitherto little known, have been examined; and much new light has thus been thrown upon the interesting subject of the early Gothic development. A new chapter on the sources of Gothic art has been inserted; the other chapters have been rewritten and much new matter incorporated. The work is thus much improved both as an exposition of the nature and character of Gothic art, and a comparative illustration of the various pointed systems of the Middle Ages.
Many new illustrations in the text, and a considerable number of full-page plates, executed in the best manner of photographic reproduction, will be included.
The Nation says of the new edition:
"The treatise has evidently been remade from beginning to end, the old material being retained only so far as it was found to meet entirely the new demands.
"As to the illustrations, they also have been minutely reconsidered, and the improvement in this respect is even more striking than in the text. . . .
"Those who have found the first edition of Mr. Moore's work valuable will find it still more important to possess the second."
"We welcome Mr. Moore's book with unalloyed satisfaction ... as of very great importance and value. ... A book so comprehensive, so compact, so clear in statement, and so interesting in the treatment of its great subject is well suited not only to increase the general knowledge of Gothic architecture, but to become a text-book for special students." —American Arcitect and Building News.
"It is without question the most noteworthy work upon architecture yet written in America, as well as by one of the foremost contributors to the literature of the subject which has appeared in any country. . . .
"Mr. Moore's book is an honor to American scholarship and investigation, and deserves the widest circulation among readers who possess any interest in what he succeeds in making a most interesting subject."—Boston Daily Advertiser.
"While the more appreciative readers of this volume will be found among students of architecture, no reader of taste or culture will find its pages without interest."—The Transcript, Boston.
"A very intelligent and sufficiently lucid discussion of fundamental principles . . . distinguished by a clear, logical precision of statement, and by a boldness, and not unfrequently by an originality of deduction, such as cannot be found in the works of European scholars . . . lucid enough to commend themselves even to readers unfamiliar with the technical side of the subject. To such readers, also, the orderly development of the argument, the frequent, graphic illustrations, . . . and above all, the exhaustive index, cannot fail to serve at once as an invitation to enter upon a charming field of study, and an inducement to stay until the last words are said."—The Atlantic Monthly.
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European Architecture
A HISTORICAL STUDY
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A DICTIONARY OF ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING
Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive
By RUSSELL STURGIS, A.M., Ph.D.
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"Mr. Russell Sturgis is the editor of this important work, and has had the cooperation of such men as Dr. Cleveland Abbe, Edward Atkinson, E. H. Blashfield, Henry Van Brunt, . . . and others, each of them eminent in some department of knowledge rendering his aid valuable. It is somewhat remarkable that there is in English no other dictionary of architecture, excepting a work in eight volumes said to have been begun about 1850 and to have been completed only ten years ago. There is room, therefore, for a modern, scholarly, and reasonably complete work of this class.
"The present volume, the first of the three proposed, covers the letters A to E, inclusive. It is comprehensive, concise, although sufficiently full, untechnical, and easily used. The desirable line between too scrupulous terseness and too much elaboration of definition or description has been drawn ordinarily with great success. There is no hesitation to give space for desirable comment, as in what is written under 'Builder,' for instance, but brevity has been kept in view throughout the work, and its cross-references facilitate its use. The tiles are in heavy type and at once catch the eye. Illustrations, numerous and appropriate, some of full-page size, abound, and all in all the work will meet very satisfactorily a real and important public need."—Congregationalist.
"Thanks to Mr. Russell Sturgis and a corps of competent assistants, we now have in 'A Dictionary of Architecture and Building: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive' a much more valuable work than could have been hoped for. . . . Several things are at once noticeable about this work—the terseness and lucidity of its articles and definitions; the extraordinary range of its subjects, from the arch of Septimius Severus to modern apartment houses and tenements, and from St. Paul's, London, and the Doge's palace in Venice, to a crib for hay such as one finds in rural England, and a peasant's hut in Asia Minor; the beauty of the illustrations, and particularly the readiness with which they elucidate the accompanying definitions and accounts; and the elaborate system of cross-references, through which a glance at an article on any phase of a given subject points the way at once to accounts of other related terms and their uses.
"Perhaps the thoroughly modern spirit which dominates and inspires the whole work is the feature that distinguishes this book most strongly from the works in other languages which the seeker for definitions hitherto has perforce consulted. The writers of these articles are scholarly men, but they are something more than scholars. They are not living in the past; they are doing their work in the world to-day, and their point of view and their tone is a most satisfactory and practical mixture of culture with the recognition of the needs of the average American. An important feature of this work will be the series of articles on the typical architecture of different countries. Some of those in the present volume deal with the architectures of Australia, Denmark, and England, while, to judge from cross-references, the one in the final volume on the architecture of the United States will be ambitious, elaborate, and inclusive. The connection of this work with modern building is shown by the two long articles on the 'Apartment House" and 'Electrical Appliances.' Modern edifices are as seriously considered as the ancient monuments described and pictured by Viollet-le-Duc. . . . Now that it has appeared, this dictionary, many of whose articles extend to the dimensions of those in encyclopædias, becomes indispensable in its field."—Boston Herald.
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