Main entry:

Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863.

Title & Author:

An Encyclopaedia of architecture : historical, theoretical, and practical / by Joseph Gwilt ; illustrated with more than one thousand engravings on wood by R. Branston from drawings by John Sebastian Gwilt.

Edition:

4th ed.

Publication:

London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859 (Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.)

Description:

xii, 1092 pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
"Brief synoptical list of the principal architects known in history, and their chief works": pages 897-915.
Copy B bound in crimson leather, blocked in gold (upper cover and spine) and blind (lower cover). Five bands on spine. Gilt edged pages. Marbled endpapers.
UkLNAL
Spine title on Copy B: Gwilt's encyclopædia of architecture. On upper cover: Science and Art Department. Queen's Prize for Art.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subject:

Architects Directories.
Architecture Encyclopedias.
Architecture History.
Architectes Répertoires.
Architecture Encyclopédies.
Architecture Histoire.
Architects
Architecture

Form/genre:

Gold-blocked bindings) UkLNAL.
Spine (book) panelled bindings. UkLNAL
woodcuts (prints)
History
Encyclopedias
Directories

Added entries:

Branston, Allen Robert, 1778-1827, illustrator.
Gwilt, John Sebastian, 1811-1890.
Great Britain. Department of Science and Art. Queen's prizes.
Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, publisher.
Spottiswoode & Co., printer.

Gwilt's encyclopædia of architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 11037
Call No.: W12196; ID:87-B2808
Status: Available