Transactions Of The Royal Institute of British Architects of London: Incorporated in the Seventh Year of William IV. Sessions 1835-36. Vol I. Part I.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/4841
Edition
Second Edition, With Corrections and Additions. [Epigraph]
Imprint
London: Published At The Rooms Of The Institute, 16, Grosvenor Street; And By John Weale, Architectural Bookseller, High Holborn; And J. Williams, Library Of Arts, Great Russell Street, 1839
Physical Description
x, 10-29, 127 pages, 10 plates: illus.; 305 mm.
General Note
The printer statement on the verso of the title-page reads, 'J. Davy, Printer, Queen Street, King Street, Long Acre, London.' The final, folded, plate is found at the end of the volume and is a facsimile of the autograph signatures of the Honorary and Corresponding Members of the Institute.
Contents
This volume consists of lists of Council members, Fellows, Honorary Fellows, Honorary Members, Honorary and Corresponding Members and Associates (p. v-x); an Address from the Council to the Members, upon laying before them the Charter of Incorporation, at the Ordinary Meeting, held Monday, 6th February, 1837 (p. 11-12); The Charter (p. 13-16); Regulations of the Institute (p. 17-29). This is followed by essays and papers presented at meetings of the Institute grouped by subjects:
Construction [Prize essay upon the nature and properties of concrete, and its application to construction up to the present period, by George Godwin, jun. Associate (p. 1-37); A letter from Robert Abraham, Esq. Architect, on the concrete used at Westminster new Bridewell (p. 38-39); An account of the method used in underpinning with concrete the long storehouse at His Majesty's Dock Yard, Chatham, in the year 1834, by George L. Taylor, Fellow (p. 40-43); On terrace roofs, by Charles Fowler, Honorary Secretary (p. 47-51); On Whinstone construction, by Messrs Smith of Darnick, N.B. (p. 52-60); Particulars of some experiments made by M. J. Brunel, Esq. C.E. and F.R.S. &c. on the mode of binding brick construction (p. 61-64); Description of the pavilion erected at Edinburgh for the Festival in honor of Earl Grey, September 1834, by Thomas Hamilton, Fellow (p. 65-70)];
Antiquities [On the polychromy of Greek architecture, from the German by Kugler, by W. R. Hamilton, Esq., Honorary Fellow (p. 73-99); Account of the ruins of the city of Anni, in Armenia, extracted from the Journal of W. J. Hamilton, Esq. (p. 100-104); On the newly discovered crypt at York Minster, by P. F. Robinson, Vice President (p. 105-108);
and. Literature, &c [On the benefits resulting to the manufactures of a country from a well directed cultivation of architecture, and of the art of ornamental design, by J. B. Papworth, Vice President (p. 111-114); Some particulars relating to manuscripts preserved in various European libraries, by Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Honorary Secretary, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, p. (115-125); W. Murray, Esq. Architect, Dublin, some particulars relative to the District Lunatic Asylums established in Ireland under the Commissioners for General Control (p. 126-127).
Binding Note
Spine labelled in gold lettering, 'Transactions of the Institute of British Architects, 1835.6.'