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James Fraser; John Williams, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Rebound at some point in the 20th century with hand-painted paper boards, leather spine label. Corners and edges are rubbed, spine is darkened with wear at head/tail. Foxed on and on pages around the engravings. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011

London: Printed for the Author, 1837. Book measures 27x17.cm. Collation, xiii,[3],234pp, 15 plates. Bound in original publishers cloth, with gilt design and lettering. Binding rebacked, retaining the original spine, some wear to cloth. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, foxing to a few plates. Pages and plates in good clean condition. A good clean solid copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Large 8vo.

Printed for the author, and sold by James Fraser, Regebt Street; and John Williams, Charles Street, Soho Square, 1937. 1st edition.. Hardback. Orginal cloth, VG. xvi+234pp. engraved frontis, engraved title, letterpress title, 13 engraved plates, 1 chromo plate and numerous woodcut illustrations, The cloth is a little rubbed at the edges & there is some spotting & foxing to the plates. Spine expertly rebacked. Overall a nice copy of a scarce book. William Bardwell [ 1795 - 1890 ] was an architect & sanitary engineer who seems to have devoted much of his carreer to the Victorian Passion for 'improving' existing buildings. In this book, which he published at his own expense, he displays, after a historical survey of Church Architecture several ideas & designs for enlarging & improving London's City churches. He dislikes Wren 'notwithstanding his errors of detail' and states that it is the Classical Italian which befits the Protestant Church Building. He designed… Read More