Contrasts. Or a Parallel Between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, and Similar Buildings of the Present Day; Shewing the Present Decay of Taste. . .
London: Printed for the Author, 1836. First Edition. First edition of Pugin’s monumental work which arguably defined the Gothic Revival in architecture. Belcher declared it “Pugin’s most original, characteristic and influential book.” Ferrey’s biography of Pugin noted that Pugin published the work himself as he could not “find a......