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![[picture: Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-372x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance]")
Pictures from Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger Smith, F.R.I.B.A. Professor of Architecture at University College, London (Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1896)
Roger Thomas Smith (1830 – 1903) died more than 70 years ago, and the book is out of copyright.
I bought my copy of the book at Renaissance Books UK in Broadford, on the Isle of Skye.
Title: Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance
Published by: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited
City: London
Date: 1896
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Gothic Chapter Head: Mediaeval Birds]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/xv-chapter-head-gothic-birds-q75-752x200.jpg "[picture: Gothic Chapter Head: Mediaeval Birds]")
Gothic Chapter Head: Mediaeval Birds
A decorative element (a typographic ornament, or part of a border) at the head of the first chapter (the glossary) features mediaeval (medieval) bird designs. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 60.---Doorway from Church at Batalha (Begun 1385)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/151-batalha-door-to-the-undead-temple-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: 60.---Doorway from Church at Batalha (Begun 1385)]")
60.—Doorway from Church at Batalha (Begun 1385)
This is a doorway at Batalha Monastery in Potugal, or rather, a portal, as there do not seem to be physical doors that close. It is made of intricately carved stone, with a five-part main arch in which each part is a segment of a circle and is toothed with smaller circles, and the whole then duplicated at slightly smaller sdcale just behind, and and [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page Image (detail)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/000-Title-Page-detail-q75-205x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page Image (detail)]")
![[picture: Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-149x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance]")
Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance
The book was bound with quarter-leather at one time. [$]
![[picture: 7.---House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/015-07-House-of-Jacques-Coeur-at-Bourges-q75-192x200.jpg "[picture: 7.---House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)]")
7.—House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)
“‘Second only in importance to the churches and religious buildings come the military and domestic buildings of the Gothic period (Fig. 7).” [more...] [$]
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