FIRST PUBLISHED: Fullers Bookshop with Foot and Playsted, Launceston, Tasmania 2015.
Dr Eric Ratcliff OAM — historian, psychiatrist, longtime Royal Society of Tasmania figure, and writer of a well-known weekly column in the Tasmanian press — spent years researching this comprehensive study of Tasmania's built heritage. The work was formally reviewed in Fabrications, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, in 2017.
A Far Microcosm is a detailed history of Tasmania's architectural heritage from 1803 to 1914 — its influences and styles, materials and construction, building forms and types, and the adaptations made in response to climate and social and economic circumstances. From the grand house to the common dwelling, from the outhouse to the cathedral, this four-volume set explains every style and size in detail, with explanations of architectural and technical terms and extensive illustrations throughout.
COLLATION: 4 vols.; xxv, 2586pp.; illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.
FORMAT: Small quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, in pictorial slipcase.
CONDITION: Used, generally very good internally. Rubbing and wear to the base and corners of the slipcase; small marks to the bottom outer edge of the page block on Volume One.
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