THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF POINTED OR CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE: Set forth in Two Lectures Delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott.

First edition, first printing. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper covered boards, ruled in blind. Five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments and titles in gilt on a red morocco label to the spine. Quarto. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Illustrated with a frontispiece, nine further full page plates, 47 wood-cut illustrations and 31 vignettes. Bound without publisher's adverts. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and scuffing to the corners. The contents, with some spotting to the prelims and a previous owner's signature (Robert Williams) at the head of the title page, are otherwise clean. An attractive example.

A foundational text of the Gothic Revival, setting forth Pugin's influential principles of structural honesty and Christian architecture.