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The story of this book is simple, but it seems necessary it should be told in order that much, which it contains, may be appreciated at its true value, and not taken for what it does not pretend to be. When in the autumn of 1866 arrangements were being made in this country for the great Paris Exhibition, to be held in the following year, Mr. Cole suggested to me that it would afford an excellent opportunity for forwarding my designs for a dissemination of ...
In the year 1843 I read a paper to the Royal Asiatic Society on the Rock-Cut Temples of India, in which I embodied the results obtained during several journeys I had undertaken between the years 1836 and 1842 for the purpose of investigating their history and forms, together with those of the other architectural antiquities of India. It was the first attempt that had then been made to treat the subject as a whole. Many monographs of individual temples ...
The present volume is a stimulating and perceptive survey of World Architecture tracing its evolution from the earliest times to the dawn of modern era. The book provides an unparalleled source of insight into architectural designs in all countries and also a guiding thread among the various styles and periods. Divided into three volumes and five parts, the work is copiously illustrated. The first two volumes are devoted to the history of architecture while the ...
The present reprint of Fergusson's History of Indian and Eastern Architecture is being brought out to meet the growing demand from scholars for whom this book is still the basic work of reference on Indian Architecture. In the preface to the second edition (1910) of this work James Burgess wrote, "Though descriptions of Indian monuments may be written in various ways, no one could pretend to take up the systematic study of Indian Architecture without the aid ...