On Building and Ornamenal Stones by HULL, Edward.

On Building and Ornamenal Stones of Great Britain and Foreign Countries: arranged according to their geological distribution and mineral character, with illustrations of their application in ancient and modern structures

London Macmillan & Co 1872

pp. [xxiv], 333, [1], 2 original photographs pasted in and 2 drawings in the text. Original cloth, gilt titles. Good copy. Book based around a series of lectures which Hull delivered at The Royal College of Science in Dublin. Dedicated to Charles Lyell. The major part of the book is on the characteristics of building stones but the introduction is a great piece of advocacy writing aimed at improving construction of commercial and every kind of building in which he laments the effort put into churches as opposed to the wider townscape of cities.

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