The mouldings of the six periods of British architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation
Sharpe's 1871 study of British medieval architectural mouldings, published in London by E. & F. N. Spon and written by the architect Edmund Sharpe, sets out measured profiles of arches and doorways for architects and students of the period from the Conquest to the Reformation. The plates show numbered, lettered arch profiles drawn as flat grey-tinted cross-sections with dashed construction lines, which a designer could use as clean, precise references for scrolled edges, stepped curves and rounded bead forms in historical lettering or ornament.
