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| B R S I T JY JP RES S . ' d Illustrations ; Volume IV ., Maps and Plans ) , price £ S . Os . ¦ THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE KSiID G-IK : . A . IDT ID B . TO 3 ST-¦ ElLLlS by JOHN , WILLI M . A ., CLARK F . R . S . M . A ., lute Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . ¦ the Woodcuts - and Steel T Engravings ~™ mounted on India paper ' , price 25 Guineas NET each Set . ¦ I , ; . NOTICES OF THE PRESS . ^ B ' The b ook consists of three handsome vo ' umes of letterpress , admirably printed on good paper , with wide margins and rough ^ ^ B B e with ( |^ es new , together views with by Mr a . thin J . O volume 'Connor of , and plans with . The measured letterpress drawings is well and illustrated details made with expressly reproductions ^ for this of work old prints . Plans by are Loggan given and of others all the , ^ ^ ^ ^ B B B cases ex t eas 0 lieges render y to an , follow ingenious a it nd o mos the ften changes device valuable more t has han from record bee one one n , resorted showing of to the architectural other to the — ori the ginal earlier The history state p wh lan of ole of is the Cambridge pri work site nted has and on been paper and then done a , the fitting the in buildings latter such memorial on a thorough subsequentl transparent to the and peculiar y linen e painst rected over genius aking on it , it of so . manner Pro that In fessor these it as is H B Willis . '—Times . .. r . ^ B ' MClark , the editor and chief compiler of a work that thus claims a double authorship , acknowledges in fitting terms ( Preface , ^ ^ m B magnificent [' ¦ xxxii . ) the volumes " splendid , and also liberali the ty pains ' . ' of and the anxiety Syndics of the of the working University staff to Press produce in them publishing in the , best after possible some considerable manner . Extensive delay , these , and ^ ^ ^ B B B conveyed T necessaril here is not y in costl a the chapter y , most the admirable in interesting the work plan way that and * can arrangemen It be is ^ . a called big book , dull not , ; to information bu say t" not the -m very ^ de of full bigger the index most than nove of : it ioo l need kind jpages have is , everywhere reall been y leave by e to nothing ith er found fine to be wri , and desired ting that or ^ ^ B B superfluous volume is entirel " padding y devoted . " to maps Throug and hou plans t the . Th work ese beautiful show most and laborious well-drawn researc illustrations h , and are beau are t profusel ifully executed y interspersed in distinctive . The colours fourth , ^ ^ B B generall Edinburg y with h Revikw an overl . ying duplicate , printed on transparent cloth , to show the modern in close contact with the ancient plan . '—^ ^ m B extend the 'A far work more of widel the and very y than highest the University merit , at once of Cambridge remarkable , dealing for its , as minute it does accuracy , with the and whole its width history of of scope the . growth Its interest and development and value ^ ^ M m & df c University As a writer Colleg on the iate structura systems l in history England of , a illustrated building , by Professor most valuable Willis refere has never nces to been the University rivalled ; but of Oxford it is to , Eton Mr . C Clark ollege ' s , ^ ^ H B B co existi histo -operation ry ng of MSS the that development we One owe of the of the immense the most Colleg interesting ad iate ditional system f value eatures , both tha in with t the has regard book been is g to iven the the to thoroug buildings this work h way themselves by in a which carefu , and l the study also authors of as all concerns have that worked is the recorded modes out the of in ^ m lifc and teaching The work is copiously illustrated with really instructive drawings . Reduced facsimiles of Loggan ' s careful ^ 1 c opper engravings are given with the history of eVcry college , and add immensely to the value of the book . The fourth volume , which . - H H consists must take -wholl a foremos y of large t p plans lace among , is a model works for of this architectural class throug illustration hout the wo of rld , and work for of its this special kind . purpose In short can , this never history be superseded is one which . 'H Academy . ' H 'These magnificent volumes are ' the fulfilment of the long delayed and much cherished design of the late Professor Willis , of writing H trie architectural history of the University of which he was so distinguished an ornament . This design unfortunately he vamot H allowed to carry into effect . The original scheme of the work is his , and a considerable portiori of the architectural history is from his H pen , but ibr the book in its present shape and actual completeness we have to thank Professor Willis ' s nephew and literary executor , H H desired Mr . John Willis The Clark readers . That of the gentleman history , and has all carried to whom out the his University task with of a thoroug Cambridge hness is and dear ability , will rather that leaves rejoice little that , indeed a task , to of be so much delicacy and of so much difficulty has been committed to one possessing the qualifications for its adequate performance in so H fascinating marked a degree work to , and an end that leaving he has at much length that been we should enabled have to carry wished it to to a say conclusion unsaid , . and . .. We without must even reluctantl directing y bring attention our notice to some of this of H H We the most must interesting not omit to portions mention , . the We admirable can onl y recommend and most comp our lete readers index to , a get mod the el book of wha for t an themselves index should and b stud e , which y it at facilitates their leisure reference to every statement and every name in this voluminous work . ' -Guardian . H ' The three volumes are enriched with general illustrations and views , which in many cases preserve the features of buildings destroyed or tastelessly restored since Willis wrote ; but the most precious of all to the architectural historian are the reduction of B H wiih I-o- ^ a 1 n teral ' s views fidelity of the what severa Cambrid l colleges ge was . These like at drawings the end of are the so seven accurate teenth , and century executed , and with make so us much wonder artistic at the feeling strange , that fluctuations they show of B spim lastt - ' which shown so in recklessl sanctioning y destroyed the printing what of they these represent sumptuous We volumes must . commend That such the a Syndics work should of the be University issued b Press y the for University the public of Cambrid ge forms a fitting acknowledgment of its author s services to archaeology . '—Church Quarterly J & eview . B 'To say of it that is quite the most sumptuous work that has ever proceeded from the Cambridge Press , is to say little . It is hardly B i" > much to say that it is one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been B B and in ulc originality by a Cambridge of treatment man . which The title it disp of lays the , work and , conveys last of all but , of a the very abundance inadequate of notion human of in its terest wide which scope , characterises of the ' encyclopaedic it so markedl learning y . ipi ; ik with The exquisite an eloquence illustrations of their alone own to ( which such as count have by eyes hundreds to see ) , and and in the whom elaborate there maps is a spark and ground of imag plans ination ? are to full enli of g surprises hten the ; paths they alo , g which their accomplished guide can lead them . '—Dr . Jessop in the Nineteenth Century , 'if 'naps ' This and long admirable looked for illustrations history has which at length enrich appeared the text in . four The sumptuous Syndics of volumes the Cambiidge , rendered University doubly attractive Press have by , with the comp great lete publ sets ic I I l ^ w I'lnt -irchaiological , sanctioned literature the printing which of the this work generation at their has Press seen . , '— and Archaeological have published Journal with unbounded . liberality the most important addition I I "vin ^ ' The tci the whole f act growth that the of the Colleg mediaeval iate system Universities originated , and in of Oxford the Collegiate , Mr . Clark system has , been is here led dealt to discuss with in the " a comprehensive growth of Merton way , , New and , 1 < 1 ' <> « Ik n ge to , those and others of the of other . the Colleges A long of Oxford and very , in interesting a way which chapter makes in the Vol book . III . hard is devoted ly less b interesting y Mr . Clark to to members the College of one Libraries University . To u'ite this excursus must have involved a very serious amount of labour , and it forms a most valuable and original monograph on a '" Klily important and hitherto neglected subject . '—Saturday Review . ' * " Illustration ft , forwarded , on application * ^ UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE , Ave Maria Lane .

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