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London: John Murray, 1899. Hardcover. See description. Originally published 1876. DESCRIPTION: Maroon three quarter leather binding with orange brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Decorative endpapers, frontis, 394 bw illustrations. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners and spine edge - see photo. Faded lettering on spine. Tightly bound with sewn endpaper gutters. Stains to margins of front and rear paste downs. Light foxing to some areas of prelims and rear pages. Remaining text block is largely clean and unmarked with occasional spotting and light foxing to margins. DJ Condition: Na. Pages [xviii], 756pp. BOOK RESUME: Unchanged reissue of the first edition, 1876 (Fergusson had included a substantial section on Indian architecture in the 1867 edition of his History of Architecture, but it was only with the 1876 edition that a separate full-length volume was assigned to Indian and Far Eastern Architecture). Fergusson was almost the only British architectural historian of… Read More