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      A TextBook of the History of Architecture, by

       Alfred D. F. Hamlin

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       Title: A TextBook of the History of Architecture

       Seventh Edition, revised

       Author: Alfred D. F. Hamlin

       Release Date: August 15, 2008 [EBook #26319]

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       *** HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE ***

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       COLLEGE HISTORIES OF ART

       Edited By

       JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D.

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       HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE A. D. F. Hamlin

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       COLLEGE HISTORIES OF ART

       Edited By

       JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D.

       Professor of the History of Art in Rutgers College

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       HISTORY OF PAINTING

       By JOHN C. VAN DYKE, the Editor of the Series. With Frontispiece and 110 Illustrations, Bibliographies, and Index. Crown 8vo, $1.50.

       HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

       By ALFRED D. F. HAMLIN, A.M. Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Columbia College, New York. With Frontispiece and 229 Illustrations and Diagrams, Bibliographies, Glossary, Index of Architects, and

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       a General Index. Crown 8vo, $2.00.

       HISTORY OF SCULPTURE

       By ALLAN MARQUAND, Ph.D., L.H.D. and ARTHUR L. FROTHINGHAM, Jr., Ph.D., Professors of Archaeology and the History of Art in Princeton

       University. With Frontispiece and 112 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.50.

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       [Illustration: THE PARTHENON, ATHENS, AS RESTORED BY CH. CHIPIEZ. (From model in Metropolitan Museum, New York.)]

       A TEXTBOOK

       of the

       HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

       by

       A. D. F. HAMLIN, A.M.

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       Professor of the History of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Columbia University

       SEVENTH EDITION Revised

       LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

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       1909

       Copyright, 1895, by

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       First Edition, March, 1896

       Printed and Revised, December, 1896. December, 1898 (Revised)

       October, 1900 (Revised) October, 1902 (Revised)

       September, 1904, June, 1906 (Revised).

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       November, 1907 (Revised) January, 1909

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       PREFACE.

       The aim of this work has been to sketch the various periods and styles of architecture with the broadest possible strokes, and to mention,

       with such brief characterization as seemed permissible or necessary,

       the most important works of each period or style. Extreme condensation in presenting the leading facts of architectural history has been

       necessary, and much that would rightly claim place in a larger work has been omitted here. The danger was felt to be rather in the direction of too much detail than of too little. While the book is intended primarily to meet the special requirements of the college student, those of the general reader have not been lost sight of. The majority of the

       technical terms used are defined or explained in the context, and the

       small remainder in a glossary at the end of the work. Extended criticism and minute description were out of the question, and discussion of controverted points has been in consequence as far as possible avoided.

       The illustrations have been carefully prepared with a view to elucidating the text, rather than for pictorial effect. With the

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