Download or read book Architectural Illustrations, History and Description of Carlisle Cathedral (Classic Reprint) written by Robert William Billings and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Architectural Illustrations, History and Description of Carlisle Cathedral Nearly all the works hitherto produced on the English Cathedrals, bear more of a picturesque than of an Architectural character, and are there fore nearly useless for the practical uses of the architect. For this purpose, says the reviewer of Carter's Ancient Architecture'; in the Quarterly Review, simple but accurate outlines, on an intelligible scale, are alone required; highly finished Plates on a small scale, though they may be liked by the amateur, are worse than useless to the art, as they encourage the builder who attempts Gothic architecture, to content himself with a general resemblance, and to blur all the minor features. A work, professing to treat on architec ture, and wanting in plans and sections, is no better than a treatise on anatomy, which omits the representations of the bones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.