1912 Charles Ashbee UNIVERSITY architecture original typescript CANADA USA etc.

Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - TYPESCRIPT FROM ASHBEE'S OWN LIBRARY - WITH SOME OF HIS OWN CORRECTIONS -ASHBEE (Charles Robert, English architect, designer, and social reformer who was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement, 1863-1942).A survey of English-speaking universities, being a report, together with an introductory essay, 'On the architectural significance of modern university development', prepared for the Hungarian Ministry of Education.(n.p. [London]): n.p., 1912. Typescript, with a few corrections or crossings-out by the author in black ink, and a printed essay. Typescript title, 1-10 [letterpress essay, clipped and pasted down to rectos of leaves], 11-111 [typescript], [1, imprimatur 'Type-Written nu Miss Ashworth, 28, Victoria Street, S.W.'] pp. Green cloth binding, gilt lettering. Ex-libris C.R. and Janet Ashbee with their book label to front pastedown, as well as Ministry of Housing and Local Government Library with its bookplate to front fly leaf and wet-stamp to title page, plus shelf numbers to pastedown and verso of title. Size: 4to (26cm x 20.4cm).Good condition. Some rubbing to binding. Front inner hinge is cracking along its length, less so at rear, but binding still reasonably solid enough. Quite a heavy age-toning to endpapers. Text leaves less affected. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.This typescript is in effect a detailed index to a collection of architectural illustrations put together by Ashbee as a visual guide to the architecture of the main English-speaking universities in the world. The illustrations are not present, but the text is interesting enough in its own right to warrant attention, with introductions given by Ashbee on the state of architectural development at many of the larger universities. For example, in the section titled 'University of California (Berkley)' [sic], Ashbee opens his dialogue with the line: "This is one of the great architectural fragments of the modern world. It is yet to be. For many reasons, therefore, the planning, arrangement and method of setting to work architecturally, are of the utmost interest to university planners." Universities appear in alphabetical order. Entries vary in length, from several pages to just one paragraph (e.g. Hong Kong). It is not clear why this survey was commissioned by the Hungarian Ministry of Education, but one can assume it was some sort of 'fact-finder' to help in that country's own university expansion. All the main red brick universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland are covered, as are many North American universities, these appearing under the titles: 'Brynmawr (Pennsylvania)'; 'California (Leyland Stanford University)'; 'University of Chicago'; 'University of Columbia'; 'University of Cornel'; 'University of Harvard'; 'McGill University, Montreal'; 'University of Minnesota'; 'University of Ottawa'; 'University of Pennsylvania'; 'University of Princetown'; 'University of St. Francis Xavier - Antigonish (Nova Scotia)'; 'University of Saskatchewan'; 'University of Toronto'; 'University of Yale' (Newhaven). Some universities other parts of the world also mentioned, such as Australia ('University of Melbourne') and India. key words:

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