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
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1909
Copyright, 1895, by
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First Edition, March, 1896
Printed and Revised, December, 1896.
December, 1898 (Revised)
October, 1900 (Revised)
October, 1902 (Revised)
September, 1904, June, 1906 (Revised).
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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
