The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry

People:

Thomas Annan (photographer)

Title:

The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry

Date:

published 1870

Description:

- Contemporary binding consists of green cloth-covered boards and a red leather-covered spine. There are gold gilt inscriptions and decorations on the cover and spine. Endpapers are of blue paper. Pages and secondary supports are of brownish white paper. The book comprises a title page, dedication page, table of contents, introduction, text discussing 100 different old country houses in and around Glasgow, with 100 accompanying photographs, and two photographs of old maps of Glasgow.

Form:
books
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 book(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

book (closed): 33 x 27 x 5.2 cm (13 x 10 5/8 x 2 1/16 in.) comps. (approx.): 12.1 x 16.9 cm (4 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.) secondary supports (approx.): 32 x 25.1 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

Reference number:

PH1985:1086:001-102

Point of View:

exterior views

Inscription:

stamped - in typescript and embossed gold gilt, on the front cover, c.: "OLD / COUNTRY HOUSES / OF THE / Old Glasgow Gentry"; on the spine, u.c.: "OLD / COUNTRY HOUSES / OF THE OLD / Glasgow Gentry" imprinted - in typescript and black and red ink, on the title page, u.c.: "THE / OLD COUNTRY HOUSES / OF THE / OLD GLASGOW GENTRY"; c.: "ONE HUNDRED PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNAN, OF WELL KNOWN PLACES IN THE / NEIGHBOURHOOD OF GLASGOW, WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES / OF THE HOUSES AND THE FAMILIES"; l.c.: "GLASGOW / JAMES MACLEHOSE, BOOKSELLER TO THE UNIVERSITY / 1970"

Location:

Glasgow; Scotland; United Kingdom;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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