Designs for rural churches
By: By George E. Hamilton, architect. ...
Publisher: John Weale, Architectural Library
Published: 1836
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: The imprint of G. Woodfall appears on the verso of the title-leaf.

: Hamilton's designs were criticised in The Gentleman's Magazine as exhibiting 'all the peculiar marks of the genuine "carpenters' Gothic"' (see Colvin p.383), an opinion to which the remarkably poor quality of the draughtsmanship may have contributed. H.R. Hitchcock singles out plate IX and reproduces it as an example of an elaborate Norman design in Early Victorian architecture in Britain (London: Architectural Press, 1954, vol.1 p.64; vol.2 III//3).

Signature: 4:̲ A⁴. [4 leaves]; A2 signed.

Publisher's brown morocco-grain quarter cloth, orange paper boards, original paper label on spine ('Hamilton's Rural Churches. 16[s.]') and upper cover ('Designs ... [as t.p.] ... Architect. Sixteen Plates. Price 16s.'). Purchased January 1989.