Texier, Charles, and R. Popplewell Pullan
Byzantine Architecture; Illustrated by Examples of Edifices Erected in the East During the Earliest Ages of Christianity. With Historical & Archaeological Descriptions
London: Day & Son, 1864. First English edition. Folio, 16 7/8 x 12 in. (429 x 305 mm). x, (ii), 218 pp. Illustrated with a chromolithographic title-page, 68 tinted and/or chromolithographic plates, some heightened in gold (numbered II-LXX, including Pl. 60a and with plates XVIII-XIX and LXIX-LXX being double-page plates); with tissue-guards; numerous in-text wood-engravings. Modern quarter crimson niger over crimson cloth-covered boards, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; patterned endpapers; book-plates of the Wigan Free Public Library on front endpapers; indiscreet blindstamp of Wigan Free Public Library at bottom of chromolithographic title-page, and at bottom of plates II, XIV, XLII, LVIII, and p. 217; small accession numbers in ink and in pencil on verso of title-page; scattered light soiling and spotting in text and on plates; some plate slightly darkened along top edge; short closed tear in bottom edge Plate VII; repair in upper fore-edge, pp. 97/98; gutter worn at pl. XXXVI. Blackmer 1490; Atabey 1213

First English edition of Charles Texier and R. Popplewell Pullan's important work on Byzantine architecture, one of the first scholarly accounts of architecture in the eastern Roman empire. Published the same year as the French edition.