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The Consulting Architect: Practical Notes on Administrative Difficulties and Disputes
Robert Kerr
1886
John Murray : London
8" by 5"
[9], x-xv, 313pp
SUMMARY
A very rare bright edition of The Consulting Architect by Robert Kerr.
Publishers Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
This book weighs1 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
A second edition of this volume, with the first being published the year before.
Kerr write extensively on the practical aspects of country house building. This is a rare book on running a Victorian Architects practice.
The Consulting Architect: Practical Notes on Administrative Difficulties and Disputes is written by Robert Kerr and aims to exhibit the principles which the architect has to deal with and the various classes of difficulties and disputes connected with the building affairs.
From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the ‘Journal of Architecture’.
CONDITION
In the publishers original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and top extremity. Previous owner inscription to the half title page. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages.
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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