Important analysis of the Gothic in architecture by brothers Joshua and John Brandon. With more than 700 examples of the style, these volumes show what was done in medieval times and how the medieval builder used those materials available. This is a married set but both are complete: plates are printed on heavy paper. Text is only in volume one. Both in very good condition with some scuffing to the edges and hinges on volume one; bookplates inside front in both and pencil on first spare of both. Very Good Condition: folio: 2 volumes: volume One: 3/4 navy leather with gray/black boards, minor scuffing at hinge, small spots on boards front and back, scuffing and some loss of leather on corners, primarily upper back, minor foxing, marbled edges: navy spine with gilt lettering: bookplate inside front with pencil on first spare: Volume Two: green cloth boards with some spots on front and back: gilt lettering on spine: “An Analysis of Gothick Architecture: illustrated by a Series of Upwards of Seven Hundred Examples of Doorways, Windows, etc. And Accompanied with remarks on the Several Details of an Ecclesiastical Edifice”: Raphael and J Arthur Brandon: London: W. Kent and Co.: 1858: Volume Two: Edinburgh: John Grant: 1903.
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