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Elmes,James (Architect and civil engineer) - PRACTICAL TREATISE ON ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL DILAPIDATIONS, RE-INSTATEMENTS, WASTE &c. With an appendix containing cases decided, precedents of notices to repair, examples of valuations, surveys, estimates,&c.

Title: PRACTICAL TREATISE ON ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL DILAPIDATIONS, RE-INSTATEMENTS, WASTE &c. With an appendix containing cases decided, precedents of notices to repair, examples of valuations, surveys, estimates,&c.
Description: London, Samuel Brooke 3rd edition considerably enlarged 1829 . Octavo contemporary cloth with paper spine label (label darkened and chipped/covers detached/spine split to hinges/lower edge has ink splatter affecting edge,not margins) xxiv +288 +CXXI=Appendix +(28p index & booklist) *The law concerning the repair of property which was to become eminently important in Victorian times when the London tenements housed the poor and Dickens among others tried to describe the poor overcrowded conditions. It also looks at the historical aspects with comparison of Roman and French law and church architecture. Elmes was an eminent architect and writer, his most famous work being Metropolitan Improvements.

Keywords: property legal historical construction

Price: GBP 50.00 = appr. US$ 71.40 Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books
- Book number: V68470

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