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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic
edition of Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain. It was
previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now,
after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally
important work by George Edmund Street, which is now, at last,
again available to you.
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Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill
the contents and give you a quick look inside Some Account of
Gothic Architecture in Spain:
Look inside the book:
Seeing, then, how complete is the ignorance which up to the
present time we have laboured under, as to the true history and
nature of Gothic architecture in Spain, I commit this volume to the
reader with a fair trust that what has been the occupation of all
my leisure moments for the last two or three years, -a work not
only of much labour at home, but of considerable labour also in
long journeys taken year after year for this object alone, -will
not be found an unwelcome addition to the literature of Christian
art. ...I believe that for a day and a half our mayoral never slept
a wink, and spent something like a fourth of his time running with
the mules: though I am bound to say that subsequent experience has
convinced me that he was exceptionally lively and wakeful, for
elsewhere, in travelling by night, I have generally found that the
mules become their own masters after dark, walking or standing
still as seemeth them best, and seldom getting over much more than
half the ground they travel in the same number of hours of
daylight.
About George Edmund Street, the Author:
11 Charles Locke Eastlake, writing in 1872, saw this as a prime
example of the 'revolt from English national style' that was
occurring amongst Gothic Revival architects at this time, at least
in part inspired by John Ruskin's enthusiasm for the medieval
architecture of Northern Italy, and by the publication of
Viollet-le-Duc's exhaustive Dictionnaire raisonne de l'Architecture
Franchise du XIe au XVIe Siecle: ...His work was not exclusively in
the Gothic revival manner, as is demonstrated by Ralli's dramatic
Lycian-Byzantine temple at Norwood Cemetery, the Romanesque
reworking of the nearby church of St Luke and the rebuilding of All
Saints' at Roydon, in West Norfolk, in a style to match its two
Norman doorways .
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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