avery architectural library (5 Ergebnisse)

134pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps.

1st edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers in a fine slip-case. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 309 p.; 35 cm. Notes: Published to accompany a circulating exhibition of the same name, October 1975-December 1978. Subjects:Piranesi, Giovanni Battista; Arthur M. Sackler Foundation; Etchings; Museums; Expositions; Art Collections; Exhibition Catalogues. 3 Kg.

First Edition, 4to, xviii,1139pp., limited edition, engraved frontis., cont. half morocco, rubbed, spine lightly rubbed and creased, upper hinge slightly cracked, uncut, t.e.g. First published catalogue of the Avery Collection, giving descriptions of some 13,000 books relating to architecture.

folio. pp. 309, [1 leaf]. full-page illus. throughout (colour frontis). biblio. wrs. Exhib. Cat.

Edition limited to 1000 copies produced at the De Vinne Press, thick 4to, pp. xii, [2], 1139; engraved frontispiece, title-page within rules printed in black and red, 2 plates, and 1 illus. in the text; contemporary half brown pebble-grained morocco and marbled paper-covered boards, worn at extremities revealing boards, somewhat rubbed and scuffed overall and the back hinge cracking, but still a good, sturdy, and stalwart copy. With an introduction by librarian George H. Baker, architecture professor Wm. R. Ware, and "Commissioner of Purchase" Russell Sturgis. An important collection of more than 13,000 books, drawings, manuscripts, and periodicals.