Papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects
A papers volume issued in London in 1853 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, a professional body of architects, for fellow practitioners and students of building. Its pictures are black-and-white wood engravings and line drawings of Gothic stonework: pointed arches, clustered piers, a sectional elevation and a paired-arch bay. A designer might take their hatched shading and crisp stone-block outlines as a model for architectural linework.
