The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter (The Sixth Edition)

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The 1839 6th edition, bound in a contemporary-to-the-period full calf, with forgiveable wear and scuffing to the panels. Original gilt-titled label at the spine still intact and very legible. Foxing (on the light side) throughout the text and the preliminaries, mild offseting at the pastedowns. Light pencil (former owner?) as well at the front pastedown, in addition to wonderful, small bookseller tag ("Bigger & Baldwn -- Massillon, Ohio"). The "sixty-four large quarto copper-paltes" all prsent and in sound condition. (Continuing from the title page: "Being a Complete Development of the GRECIAN ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE, Methodized and Arranged in Such a Simple, Plain and Comprehensive Manner, as to Be Easily Understood;". Authored by the redoubtable Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), the highly-influential American achitect and author "whose work transitioned between Federal architecture and the later Greek Revival architecture". (Hitchcock #122).

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Detalles bibliográficos

Título

The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter (The Sixth Edition)

Editor

Benjmin B. Mussey, Boston

Fecha de publicación

1839

Encuadernación

Full leather

Edición

1ª Edición

Estado

Very Good

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• Architecture