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1885 · 101754 — 1885. Paris Librairies-Imprimeries Réunis n.d. 188. Large 8vo. 10 volumes. Half leather bindings marbled boards spine gilt. Top edge gilt. Lovely copies with only very occasional light staining. Numerous illustrations. The most important architectural dictionary of the nineteenth century and one of the great books in the entire literature of architecture. In the 1880's after Viollet-le-Duc's death the 'Librairie des imprimeries réunis' which had absorbed the 'Librairie Centrale d'Architecture' published the present 10-volume edition the last produced in the nineteenth century. c.f. Bressani Martin. Architecture and the Historical imagination. Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 1814-1879 hardcover