Building in England Down to 1540: A Documentary History

by L.F. Salzman and Louis Francis Salzman

This standard work on building in England, long unavailable, has now been reissued. It provides a compendious account, firmly grounded in contemporary documentary evidence of architecture and music practice until the mid-sixteenth century. It examines the organization and economics of the building trade, its raw materials and their sources, the tools and techniques of the many and diverse workers involved, and the decoration of the finished structures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198171587
• ISBN13: 9780198171584
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"