ARCHITECTURAL FOLIO Gothic Architecture~61 PLATES~PUGIN

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INCREDIBLE ARCHITECTURAL FOLIO, SIXTY ONE ETCHED PLATES BY F. MACKENZIE AND A. PUGIN. Hardbound, nineteenth century pictorial volume of architectural drawings has a full title page; "Specimens Of Gothic Architecture Consisting Of Doors, Windows, Buttresses, Pinnacles &c: With The Measurements Selected From Ancient Buildings At Oxford &c. Drawn And Etched On Sixty One Plates By F. Mackenzie And A. Pugin. Published By J. Taylor, London: [1825?]" Between 1821 and 1838 Pugin and his father published a series of volumes of architectural drawings , the first two entitled, Specimens of Gothic Architecture, and the following three, Examples of Gothic Architecture, that were to remain both in print and the standard references for Gothic architecture for at least the next century. He became an advocate of Gothic architecture , which he believed to be the true Christian form of architecture. He attacked the influence of "pagan" Classical architecture in his book Contrasts, in which he set up medieval society as an ideal, in contrast to modern secular culture. His first Neo-gothic church was St Mary's Church, Derby , designed in 1837 and its construction completed in 1839. Another example of his work is the Roman Catholic Church of St Giles in Cheadle, Staffordshire . There is no date anywhere in or on this fantastic work and this 19th century read more

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