Willis robert trans (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Orig dec cloth; worn, rebacked preserving backstrip. Occasional spotting; text margins sl browned; ink name on title of the architect John R Clayton. The lithograph plates, drawn for Lassus in 1851 by Gustave Jules Leroy, had been published in 1858 (the year after Lassus' early death) in a French edition by his pupil Alfred Darcel, incorporating Quicherat's 1849 commentary. They are seductively vivid, with some tone & colour, but as Carl F Barnes points out cannot be relied upon for details of Villard's drawing style. Willis' contribution is still invaluable: 'the discussions of the architectural plates, and those which relate to geometry and mechanics, have either received large additions, or are entirely new'. The title is found in two slightly differently worded states. VILLARD.…