Standard Details.
Reading edition
Especially prepared for the use of Students in Technical Schools, Universities, &c., &c.
This volume has been prepared with the special object of providing very large plates of exterior and interior details, which, by reason of their intrinsic excellence, may be regarded as “Standard” details of their several periods. The selection has been made under the direction of Mr. Mervyn E. Macartney, B.A, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A.
The drawings themselves are of superb quality—it would, indeed, be impossible to excel them as specimens of line draughtsmanship; and included on the plates are small photographic reproductions of the actual work.
The scope of the portfolio is best shown by the following annotated list of the subjects illustrated:—
Staircase at Thorpe Hall (2 plates).
One of the finest examples of a seventeenth-century English staircase, richly wrought and carved.
Porch at Rainham (2 plates).
A very graceful design, executed in wood, dating from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
King’s Bench Walk Doorways (3 plates).
By Wren, displaying all his skill in the use of brickwork.
Panelling and Chimneypiece in New River Company’s Offices (5 plates).
As an example of the Later English Renaissance, nothing finer than this room could be conceived. The carved enrichments are in the manner of Grinling Gibbons.
Judge’s House, Salisbury (2 plates).
A dignified Georgian house façade, dating from the early years of the eighteenth century.
Exterior Brickwork from Enfield (2 plates).
Part of a late seventeenth-century house, now in the South Kensington Museum.
Library Chimneypiece, Thorpe Hall (1 plate).
An example of the Early Renaissance.
Staircase in Guildhall, Rochester (1 plate).
Of the Wren period—a simple but sturdy design, full of interest.
Dining-room Chimneypiece, Bourdon House, London (1 plate).
Executed in the eighteenth century from a design by Inigo Jones, with a firegrate of the Adam period.
Staircase in Cromwell House, Highgate (4 plates).
The most wonderful staircase of its period—the Cromwellian.
Chimneypiece ascribed to Settignano in South Kensington Museum (2 plates).
A Florentine example of the late fifteenth century, finely executed in marble.
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