The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806 84), a supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal Newman, was also a historian of architecture, whose two-volume Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture is also reissued in this series. In 1851, he published a volume on English domestic architecture from the Norman Conquest to 1300 by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815 52), and on Turner's death he completed the second volume, on the fourteenth century, himself. Both volumes are highly illustrated with line drawings and...
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806 84), a supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal Newman, was also a hi...