History of Architecture

A TEXT-BOOK of the HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE by A. D. F. HAMLIN, A.M.

Professor of the History of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Columbia University

SEVENTH EDITION Revised

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 91 and 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK London, Bombay, and Calcutta 1909

Copyright, 1895, by LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

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PREFACE.

The aim of this work has been to sketch the various periods and styles of architecture with the broadest possible strokes, and to mention, with such brief characterization as seemed permissible or necessary, the most important works of each period or style. Extreme condensation in presenting the leading facts of