A Text-Book of the History of Architecture / Seventh Edition, revised

Technical Note: The illustrations were scanned at 500dpi and resized to 25% (125dpi). They will therefore display slightly larger than their original size; the exact value depends on your monitor settings. The Frontispiece and Figures 78 and 171 were printed as full-page plates and resized to 1/6, so they will be a little smaller proportionally. The quality of the photographs reflects the quality of the printed book.
By John C. Van Dyke, the Editor of the Series. With Frontispiece and 110 Illustrations, Bibliographies, and Index. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
By Alfred D. F. Hamlin, A.M. Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Columbia College, New York. With Frontispiece and 229 Illustrations and Diagrams, Bibliographies, Glossary, Index of Architects, and a General Index. Crown 8vo, $2.00.
By Allan Marquand, Ph.D., L.H.D. and Arthur L. Frothingham, Jr., Ph.D., Professors of Archæology and the History of Art in Princeton University. With Frontispiece and 112 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.50.

THE PARTHENON, ATHENS, AS RESTORED BY CH. CHIPIEZ. (From model in Metropolitan Museum, New York.)

The aim of this work has been to sketch the various periods and styles of architecture with the broadest possible strokes, and to mention, with such brief characterization as seemed permissible or necessary, the most important works of each period or style. Extreme condensation in presenting the leading facts of architectural history has been necessary, and much that would rightly claim place in a larger work has been omitted here. The danger was felt to be rather in the direction of too much detail than of too little. While the book is intended primarily to meet the special requirements of the college student, those of the general reader have not been lost sight of. The majority of the technical terms used are defined or explained in the context, and the small remainder in a glossary at the end of the work. Extended criticism and minute description were out of the question, and discussion of controverted points has been in consequence as far as possible avoided.