WORKS ON Medieval Architecture and PUBLISHED BY JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER, ARCHITECTURAL MANUAL. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. By JOHN HENRY PARKER, F.S.A. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with 170 Illustrations, and a Glossarial Index. Fcap. 8vo., cloth lettered, price 5s. "The attention which of late years has been given to Gothic Architecture, especially by men who are not professional architects, renders necessary some sure and safe guide to the study of the art. Such a book is that by Mr. Parker, a second edition of which has just made its appearance. The new matter and illustrations, incorporated with the old, combine to make it the most comprehensive and practically useful treatise upon the subject which can be placed in the hands of any one desirous of being taught the principles of Gothic structure. It was written, as the author says, not so much for architects as for their employers, the gentry and clergy of England."-Art Journal. THE GLOSSARY OF ARCHITECTURE. A Glossary of Terms used in GRECIAN, ROMAN, ITALIAN, and GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Exemplified by upwards of Eighteen Hundred Illustrations, drawn from the best examples. Fifth edition, 3 vols. 8vo., cloth, gilt tops, 17. 10s. A VOCABULARY OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURAL TERMS, in FRENCH AND ENGLISH, and English and French, with references to the Engravings in the English Glossary. 8vo., ls. Svo., ls. in GERMAN AND ENGLISH, and English and German. 861-5 1. MEDIEVAL SKETCH-BOOK. FACSIMILE OF THE SKETCH-BOOK OF WILARS DE HONECORT, AN ARCHITECT OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. With Commentaries and Descriptions by MM. LASSUS and QUICHERAT. Translated and Edited, with many additional Articles and Notes, by the Rev. ROBERT WILLIS, M.A., F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor at Cambridge, &c. With 64 Facsimiles, 10 Illustrative Plates, and 43 Woodcuts. Royal 4to., cloth, 21. 10s. The English letterpress separate, for the purchasers of the French edition, 4to., 15s. MEDIEVAL IRONWORK. SERRURERIE DU MOYEN-AGE, par RAYMOND BORDEAUX. Forty Lithographic Plates, by G. Bouet, and numerous Woodcuts. Small 4to., cloth, 20s. MEDIEVAL ARMOUR. IN ANCIENT ARMOUR AND WEAPONS EUROPE. By JOHN HEWITT, Member of the Archæological Institute of Great Britain. Vols. II. and III., comprising the Period from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, completing the work, 17. 12s. Also Vol. I., from the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the end of the Thirteenth Century, 18s. The work complete, 3 vols., 8vo., 27. 10s. MEDIEVAL BRASSES. A MANUAL OF MONUMENTAL BRASSES. Comprising an Introduction to the Study of these Memorials, and a List of those remaining in the British Isles. With Two Hundred Illustrations. By the Rev. HERBERT HAINES, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford; Second Master of the College School, and Chaplain of the County Asylum, Gloucester. (With the Sanction of the Oxford Architectural Society.) 2 vols., Medium 8vo., price 21s. MEDIEVAL MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. OUR ENGLISH HOME: Its Early History and Progress. With Notes on the Introduction of Domestic Inventions. Second Edition. Crown 8vo., price 5s. "It contains the annals of our English civilization, and all about our progress in social and domestic matters, how we came to be the family and people which we are. All this forms a book as interesting as a novel, and our domestic history is written not only with great research, but also with much spirit and liveliness."-Christian Remembrancer. -2 WESTMINSTER ABBEY. GLEANINGS FROM WESTMINSTER ABBEY. By GEORGE GILBERT SCOTT, R.A., F.S.A. With Appendices supplying Further Particulars, and completing the History of the Abbey Buildings, by W. Burges, M.R.I.B.A., J. Burtt, F.S.A., G. Corner, F.S.A., W. H. Hart, F.S.A., J. J. Howard, F.S.A., Rev. T. Hugo, M.A., F.S.A., J. Hunter, F.S.A., H. Mogford, F.S.A., J. H. Parker, F.S.A., Rev. M. Walcott, M.A., F.R.S., Rev. T. W. Weare, M.A., Rev. Professor Willis, M.A. Illustrated by numerous Plates and Woodcuts. 8vo., cloth, 7s. 6d. NEW OXFORD MUSEUM. THE OXFORD MUSEUM. Remarks addressed to a Meeting of Architectural Societies, by HENRY W. ACLAND, M.D., F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medicine; With Letters from JOHN RUSKIN, M.A., Honorary Student of Christ Church; and JOHN PHILLIPS, M.A., F.R.S., Reader in Geology. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo., sewed, 1s. MEDIEVAL CASTLES. THE MILITARY ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Translated from the French of M.VIOLLETLE-DUC, by M. MACDERMOTT, Esq., Architect. With 151 original French Engravings. Medium 8vo., cloth, 21s. Also in the press, uniform with the above, AN HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ACCOUNT OF ENGLISH CASTLES. By the Rev. C. H. HARTSHORNE, M.A. With numerous Engravings. MEDIEVAL SCULPTURE. A SERIES OF MANUALS OF GOTHIC ORNAMENT. Price 1s. each. No. 1. STONE CARVING. No. 2. MOULDINGS. No. 3. SURFACE ORNAMENT. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. The Domestic Architecture OF THE Middle Ages. VOL. I.-FROM WILLIAM I. TO EDWARD I. (or the Norman and Early English Styles). 8vo., 21s. VOL. II.-FROM EDWARD I. TO RICHARD II. (the Edwardian Period, or the Decorated Style). 8vo., 21s. VOL. III.-FROM RICHARD II. TO HENRY VIII., in Two With numerous Illustrations of Existing Remains The Work complete, with 400 Engravings and a General Index, 4 vols. 8vo., 31. 12s. "Nothing could be more opportune than its completion while the question of 'Classic' and 'Gothic' is still pending with regard to the Foreign Office. What is the true national architecture of England, and of what is it capable? These volumes contain evidence which might open the eyes of Lord Palmerston himself. They might even do something to relieve that lower depth of denseness, which is represented by Mr. Tite and Mr. Coningham. "The whole history, as traced out by Mr. Parker, shews the absurdity of the vulgar notion that Gothic is in some special way an ecclesiastical style. The truth is that the medieval architects, like the architects of every other good period, Christian or heathen, built their religious buildings in exactly the same style as their secular ones. They built both in the only style they knew of, at least the only one they could work in-namely, the style of their own day. A church, a house, a castle, of the same date, are very different things in outline and proportion-that is the natural result of their several purposes; but in mere style, in mere architectural forms, they are exactly the same. No point can be more important to insist on just now than this, and Mr. Parker's book comes very opportunely to set it forth at length. "It is a work of thorough research and first-rate authority on a deeply interesting and important subject."-Saturday Review, Nov. 26, 1859. |