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OXFORD ARCHITECTURAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY RICHMOND ROOM, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM Classified Shelf-List (Brought up-to-date by Tony Hawkins 1992-93) Note (2010): The collection is now stored in the Sackler Library CLASSIFICATION SCHEME A Architecture A1 General A2 Domestic A3 Military A4 Town Planning A5 Architects, biographies & memoirs A6 Periodicals B Gothic architecture B1 Theory B2 Handbooks B3 Renaissance architecture B4 Church restoration B5 Symbolism: crosses &c. C Continental and foreign architecture C1 General C2 France, Switzerland C3 Germany, Scandinavia C4 Italy, Greece C5 Asia D Church architecture: special features D1 General D2 Glass D3 Memorials, tombs D4 Brasses and incised slabs D5 Woodwork: roofs, screens &c. D6 Mural paintings D7 Miscellaneous fittings D8 Bells E Ecclesiology E1 Churches - England, by county E2 Churches - Scotland, Wales E3 Cathedrals, abbeys &c. F Oxford, county F1 Gazetteers, directories, maps &c. F2 Topography, general F3 Topography, special areas F4 Special subjects F5 Oxford diocese and churches, incl RC and non-conformist F6 Individual parishes, alphabetically G Oxford, city and university G1 Guidebooks G2 Oxford city, official publications, records G3 Industry, commerce G4 Education and social sciences G5 Town planning G6 Exhibitions, pageants &c H Oxford, history, descriptions & memoirs H1 Architecture, incl. church guides H2 General history and memoirs H3 Memoirs, academic J Oxford university J1 History J2 University departments & societies J3 Degree ceremonies J4 University institutions J5 Colleges K Biography and family history K1 General and collective K2 Family histories K3 Individual biographies L Berkshire L1 General L2 Regions, incl. River Thames L3 Particular localities M Buckinghamshire N Gloucestershire O Cambridge P Heraldry and armour Q Miscellaneous F : FOLIO A ARCHITECTURE A1 ARCHITECTURE, general history Aldrich - Elements of civil architecture 1789 Atkinson - Glossary of English architecture 1948 F Architectural association sketch books (10 vols) 1881-1901 Berty - Vocabulaire archéologique 1853 Briggs - Puritan architecture 1946 Briggs - Goths and vandals 1952 Bury - Rudimentary architecture 1867 Caumont - Abécédaire 1853 Choisy - Histoire de l'architecture (2 vols) 1903 Collier - Historic buildings 1973 Colvin - Architectural drawings from Lowther castle, Westmorland 1980 Comite historique des arts et monuments - Instructions 1857 Crosnier - Eléments d'archéologie 1845 Fergusson - Illustrated handbook of architecture (2 vols) 1855 Fergusson - History of architecture (5 vols) 1893-1902 Feriel - Resume d' archéologie 1846 Ferriday (ed.) - Victorian architecture 1963 Freart - Parallel of antient architecture 1664 Freeman - History of architecture 1849 Gardner - Outline of English architecture 1945 Godfrey - Our building inheritance 1945 Goodhart-Rendel - English architecture since Regency 1953 Gwilt - Encyclopaedia of architecture 1842 Hope - Historical essay on architecture 1835 Mortet & Deschamps - Recueil de textes a l'histoire de l'architecture; tome II XII-XIII siècles 1929 Parker - Glossary of terms used in architecture (3 eds) 1836-45 Parker - Concise glossary of terms in architecture 1875 Pilcher - Regency style 1947 Ramee - Manuel de l'histoire de l'architecture 1843 Rosengarten - Handbook of architectural style 1878 Smith - Outline of architecture 1820 Stratton - Orders of architecture 1931 Vitry - Dictionnaire portative d'architecture 1831 Vitry – Vignole de poche 1832-1- A2 ARCHITECTURE, domestic Billings - Baronial antiquities of Scotland (4 vols.) 1845-52 The new Palace of Westminster 1892 Brayley & Britton - Ancient palace of Westminster 1836 F Burges - Architectural designs 1883 F Clarke - Schools and school houses 1852 Dollman & Jobbings - Analysis of domestic architecture (2 vols) 1861-3 F Garner & Stratton -Domestic architecture, Tudor period 1929 Scott - Remarks on secular and domestic architecture 1858 Turner - Some account of domestic architecture (4 vols) 1851-9 Wilkinson - English country houses 1875 Wood - English medieval house 1965 A3 ARCHITECTURE, military Armitage - The early Norman castles of the British Isles 1912 Clark - Papers on castles 1870 Thompson - Military architecture in England during the middle ages 1912 Toy - Castles 1939 Viollet le Duc - Military architecture 1879 A4 ARCHITECTURE, Town planning Hughes and Greening-Lambourn - Towns and town planning 1923 Suddards - Listed buildings: the law and practice 1988 Tout - Medieval town planning 1917 A5 ARCHITECTS, Biographies and memoirs Britton - The autobiography of John Britton (2 vols) 1850 Colvin - Biographical dictionary of English architects 1660 - 1840 1954 Ferrey - Recollections of A. N. Welby Pugin 1861 Harvey - Henry Yevele 1944 Harvey - English medieval architects - a biographical dictionary down to 1550 1954 Hicks - William Searle Hicks, architect 1903 Jackson - Recollections of Thomas Graham Jackson 1950 Rickman - Notes on the life of Thomas Rickman 1901 A6 ARCHITECTURE, periodicals, pamphlets, reports The Church-Builder (4 vols bound in 2) 1861-4 The Ecclesiologist (29 vols bound in 26) 1843-68 B GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE B1 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, theory Barr - Anglican church architecture 1842 Barrington - Tabular display of British architecture 1843î®® Barrington - Manual for students of British architecture 1843 Bloxham - Principles of Gothic architecture (2 eds) 1838-49 Bourasse - Archéologie chrétienne 1841 Brandon (JA & JR) - Analysis of Gothick arch. (2 vols) 1847 Britton - Arch. antiquities of Gt. Britain (5 vols) 1807-26 F Browne - Pugin studentship drawings 1887 F Carter - Ancient architecture of England 1837 Close - Church architecture scripturally considered 1844 F Coney - Ecclesiastical edifices 1842 F Conybeare - Ten canons of proportion c 1870 Eastlake - History of the Gothic revival 1872 Ecclesiastical society handbook 1847 F Francis - Series of original designs 1841 Haggitt - Two letters on Gothic architecture 1813 Hawkins - History of Gothic architecture 1813 Hope - English cathedral 1861 Hopkins - Essay on Gothic architecture 1836 Kendall - Elucidation of principles of English arch. 1818 F Lewin - Design for a small church 1844 Milner - Treatise on ecclesiastical architecture 1835 Neale - Hierologus: a church tour 1843 Paley - Manual of Gothic architecture 1846 Parker - Introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (3 eds) 1849-77 Parker - Series of (3) manuals of Gothic architecture 1855 Parker - ABC of Gothic architecture (2 eds) 1882-1900 F Petit - Remarks on architectural character 1846 Poole - History of ecclesiastical architecture in England 1848 Pugin (AC) - Specimens of Gothic architecture (3 vols.) 1823 Pugin (AWN) - Gothic ornaments selected 1831 Pugin (AC & AWN) - Examples of Gothic arch. (3 vols) 1836-8 Pugin (AW) - Contrasts 1841 Pugin (AWN) - Glossary of ecclesiastical ornament 1844 Pugin (AW) - Apology for the revival of Christian arch. 1843 Reichensperger - L'art Gothique 1867 Rickman-Attempt to discriminate styles of arch.(3 eds.) 1835-81 Scott - Essay on English church architecture 1881 Sharpe - Seve Trimen - Church and chapel architecture 1849 Warton et al - Essays on gothic architecture 1800 Weale (ed.) - Quarterly papers on architecture (4 vols) 1844-5 B2 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, handbooks Bond - Gothic architecture in England 1905 Bond - Introduction to English church architecture(2 vols) 1913 Clapham - English Romanesque arch. before the conquest 1930 Clapham - English Romanesque arch. after the conquest 1934 Clarke - Church builders of the 19th century 1938 Clinch - Old English churches 1900 Dryden - Catalogue of drawings etc. 1912 Howard - Medieval styles of English parish church 1936 Reports of Architectural Societies 1842-5 Tracts relating to the Gothic revival (3 vols) 1825-81 B3 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE Hakewell - Character of Elizabethan architecture 1835 Papworth - Renaissance style of arch. in Gt. Britain 1883 B4 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, church restoration Bordeaux - Traite de la réparation des églises 1862 Bruton - Handy book on ecclesiastical dilapidations act 1871 Markland - Remarks on English churches 1843 Markland - On the reverence due to holy places 1846 Paley - Church restorers 1844 Poole - Churches, their restoration 1845 Scott - Plea for faithful restoration of churches 1850 Société française pour la conservation des monuments programme 1841 B5 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, symbolism, crosses etc. Adeline - Les sculptures grotesques et symboliques 1900 Allen - Early Christian symbolism 1887 Brock - The cross 1879 Collingwood - Northumbrian crosses 1927 Ecclesiastical Society - Hierurgia Anglicana 1848 Prior - Gothic art in England 1900 Twining - Symbols of early Christian art 1852-4- C CONTINENTAL AND FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE C1 CONTINENTAL ARCHITECTURE, General Faber - Sight and thoughts in foreign churches 1842 Heber Rimmer memorial 1896 F Nesfield - Specimens of medieval architecture in France and Italy 1862 Petit - Remarks on church architecture (2 vols) 1841 Webb - Sketches of continental ecclesiology 1848 Whewell - Architectural notes on German churches 1835 C2 ARCHITECTURE, France, Switzerland F Basle cathedral - Description 1842 Bilsen - Vestiges de la cathédrale de Rouen 1927 Bouet - Analyse architecturale de l'abbaye de Ste Etienne de Caen 1868 Britton - Normandy 1832 Clapham - Renaissance of architectural stone carving in France 10th & 11th centuries 1932 F Caumont - Programme des questions archéologiques 1841 Caumont - Cours d'antiquités monumentales (6 vols) 1830-41 Caumont - Histoire sommaire de l'architecture
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