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The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection British Books : Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries

1998 · 80784 — George Braziller. New. 1998. Hardcover. 0807614327 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- -- Corresponds to ISBN: 0807614327. 392 pages. Description: " 'British Books' is the second book in the series cataloguing more than six hundred rare illustrated books and bound series of prints on western European architecture design and topography collected by the late Mark J. Millard. Among the books all published between the end of the fifteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries are numerous first or early editions. The almost one hundred titles catalogued in 'British Books' trace the origins and development of architectural illustration in Britain. The collection is particularly rich in the eighteenth century and includes almost all of the great folio albums recording the archaeological investigations of antiquity and most of the volumes documenting the architecture of Britain. These books intended for the gentleman-amateur's library rather than the architect's office or builder's workshop reveal the British sensitivity concerning properly architectural representation of buildings. Here too are practical treatises for construction ornament patterns surveys of monuments views of buildings in situ and topographical surveys. Included are works by Thomas Chippendale John Neale Humphry Repton and Sir Christopher Wren." -- with a bonus offer-- . George Braziller hardcover