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Discourses on Architecture Two-Volume Boxed Set

1959réf. 001976New York: Grove Press Inc. 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 4to. No Jacket As Issued. Volume I. viii 487 pp list of plates I-XVIII translator's preface the author's preface. I. What is Barbarism What is Art etc.; II. The Buildings of Primitive Times; III. Comparison between Greek and Roman Architecture; IV. Roman Architecture; V. Methods to Be Followed in the Study of Architecture; VI. Period of Decline in Ancient Architecture etc.; VII. The Principles of Western Architecture in the Middle Ages; VIII. Causes of the Decline of Architecture etc.; IX. On the Principles and Branches of Knowledge with which Architeects Should Be Acquainted; X. Architecture in the 19th Century -- Importance of Method. Volume II. viii 468 pp list of plates XIX-XXXVI The Construction of Buildings -- Masonary; XII. The Const. of Bldgs. -- Masonary cont. and Simultaneous Employment of Stone Brick and Iron etc.; XIII. The Const. of Bldgs. Organization of Building Yards; Present Condition of the Art of Building etc.; XIV. On the Teaching of Architecture; XV. General Observations on the External and Internal Ornamentation of Buildings; XVI. On Monumental Sculpture; XVII. Domestic Architecture; XVIII. Domestic Architectue cont.; XIX. Domestic Architecture -- Country Houses; XX. The State of Architecture in Euroope etc; conclusion index. Illustrated By Thirty-Seven Steel Engravings and Two Hundred Woodcuts. Translated from the French by Benjamin Bucknall. Reprint 1959. In Near Pristine Slipcase. Lightly bumped top fore-edge corner front board Vol. I and top fore-edge rear panel corner Vol. II. else Pristine no wear. Clean tight and strong binding with no underlining highlighting or marginalia. Orange cloth with black title plate and gilt lettering to spine. Grove Press, Inc. Hardcover

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