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Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1357119941ISBN 13: 9781357119942
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.
Verlag: London: Crosby Lockwood And Co., 1876., 1876
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
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8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xiv, 362 + [48]ads. with half-title & errata leaf. original black-stamped cloth (upper joints frayed). First Edition. Including sections on agreements with architects and builders, principles of construction, house-building: plans and masonry and carpentry and fittings, church building, domes, the great pyramid, and sizes of buildings, large churches and halls. The author s own architectural work on St. Alban s Cathedral inspired the verb to grimthorpe , meaning to carry out unsympathetic restorations of ancient buildings. Beckett is also notable for having designed in 1851 the mechanism for the clock of the Palace of Westminster, responsible for the chimes of Big Ben.