This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...but it has a structural suggestiveness, and gives a new expression to the whole. In this work of repair the influence of Canterbury is very marked, and beyond question, yet almost every feature has a different character from that of the Canterbury work, and bears an Anglo-Norman impress. The vaulting of the nave is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...but it has a structural suggestiveness, and gives a new expression to the whole. In this work of repair the influence of Canterbury is very marked, and beyond question, yet almost every feature has a different character from that of the Canterbury work, and bears an Anglo-Norman impress. The vaulting of the nave is quadripartite, and has a full system of ribs, of Fig. 9i-Chichester. which the transverse and longitudinal ribs are pointed, and the groin ribs are semicircular. The longitudinal rib is not stilted, however, and the vaulting conoid is, therefore, in horizontal section at the haunch, shaped as in Fig. 91, instead of having the triangular form of French Gothic vaulting,1 as at Canterbury. But the presence of the longitudinal rib makes the rib system complete, which it is not, as we have seen, at Canterbury.2 The vaults are obtusely pointed, and the ribs all reach to nearly the same level. The compartments are therefore not domical, but the masonry is in slightly arched courses which are parallel at the crown, as in 1 Cf. my Gothic Architecture, second edition, pp. 130 et seq. 2 The reader unfamiliar with French Gothic construction may here question the need for the longitudinal rib, since in most cases where they do not occur the vaults are still intact. So long as walls remain a vault may secure enough without this rib; but in developed French Gothic the wall is eliminated, and the longitudinal rib then becomes an essential member of the skeleton system. In transitional stages of Gothic Art the skeleton system is gradually perfecting within the walled enclosure. French vaulting. The eastern rib of the easternmost compartment, which is against the end wall, is semicircular, and is in fact little more than a moulding. The transverse ribs have the pr...
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Blue cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering and gilt page edges. Illustrated with 23 plates in half-tone and 149 in-line illustrations. Boards with moderate wear; pages dusty with light age toning; previous owner's inscription inside.
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Very Good- No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 237+pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Illust. w/ 23 plates in half-tone and 149 illustrations in the text. Contents nice.
