Thomas U Sadleir & Page L Dickinson GEORGIAN MANSIONS IN IRELAND WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EVOLUTION OF GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION 1915 Limited Edition Illustrated Plates Photographs Irish Architecture Beaulieu Abbeyleix Caledon Drumcondra

Title: Georgian Mansions in Ireland, with Some Account of the Evolution of Georgian Architecture and Decoration
Author: Page L. Dickinson, Thomas U. Sadleir - Thomas Ulick Sadleir was an Irish genealogist and heraldic expert. He was successively registrar of the Order of St Patrick, Deputy Ulster King of Arms and Acting Ulster King of Arms.

Publisher: Printed for the Authors at the Dublin University Press by Ponsonby & Gibbs
City: Dublin
Year: 1915
Printing Information: Limited Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 103 pages, plus 80 numbered plates
Width: 10" Height: 12.25"
Book Details: This antique volume is bound in green cloth-covered boards with decorative doorknocker printed on the front board. This work features a brief history of Georgian architecture as well as 80 numbered plates of Irish architecture and photographs. The limitation page states this volume is one of 700; this copy is unnumbered, out of sequence.

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, George III, and George IV—who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830. The Georgian style is highly variable, but marked by symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome, as revived in Renaissance architecture. Ornament is also normally in the classical tradition, but typically restrained, and sometimes almost completely absent on the exterior. The period brought the vocabulary of classical architecture to smaller and more modest buildings than had been the case before, replacing English vernacular architecture (or becoming the new vernacular style) for almost all new middle-class homes and public buildings by the end of the period.

Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube. Regularity, as with ashlar (uniformly cut) stonework, was strongly approved, imbuing symmetry and adherence to classical rules: the lack of symmetry, where Georgian additions were added to earlier structures remaining visible, was deeply felt as a flaw, at least before Nash began to introduce it in a variety of styles.[2] Regularity of housefronts along a street was a desirable feature of Georgian town planning. Until the start of the Gothic Revival in the early 19th century, Georgian designs usually lay within the Classical orders of architecture and employed a decorative vocabulary derived from ancient Rome or Greece.

Condition / Notes: This antique volume shows well with some mild indications of age and wear, including shelfwear and rubbing, and a previous library label on the spine cover. Text and illustrations show nicely with mild to moderate age toning and occasional minor moisture markings, primarily at the end of the volume. The endpapers bear ex-library bookplates and treatments.

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