Main entry:

Lloyd, Nathaniel, 1867-1933.

Title & Author:

A history of English brickwork : with examples and notes of the architectural use and manipulation of brick from mediaeval times to the end of the Georgian period / by Nathaniel Lloyd.

Publication:

[Woodbridge] : Antique Collectors' Club, 1983.

Description:

xi, 449 pages : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
Originally published: London : M.G. Montgomery, 1925.
Includes index.
Ill on lining papers.
A history of English brickwork -- Brick sizes -- Prices, wages and output -- Brickmaking -- Terra-cotta -- Statutes, proclamations and order -- Tax on bricks, 1784-1850 -- Characteristics of brick -- Factors : form, texture, colour -- Association with other materials -- Manipulation of brick -- Table of brick measurements -- Photographic illustrations -- Measured drawings.

Summary:

'A History of English Brickwork' covers the whole spectrum of the subject, from the problems faced by the craftsman shaping a brick to the drawings necessary to construct a complicated capital. The book features hundreds of photographs from the turn of the century illustrating properties throughout England.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0907462367
9780907462361

Subject:

Building, Brick England History.
Building, Brick Great Britain History.
Architecture Great Britain.
Construction en brique Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Construction en brique Angleterre Histoire.
Architecture
Building, Brick
Baksteen.
Great Britain
England
England Structures Brickwork, to 1925

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 11800
Call No.: PO11142; ID:87-B14269
Status: Available