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The Architectural Instructor Containing a History of Architecture... by Lafever, Minard - 1856
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New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. First Edition . Brown Cloth with Brown Leather. Worn. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. First Edition, black leather spine, brown cloth boards, t.e.g., moderate foxing, 526 pp., minor water damage to margins of a few rear pages; contains 104 of 112 plates - many of which are hand tinted; lacks plates #22 - #29 which relate to the orders of architecture. More importantly, the plates of villas and cottages are present; light foxing throughout, front and rear joints worn and split; Hitchcock 686.
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The Architectural Instructor, Containing A History Of Architecture From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
by Minard Lafever
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The Architectural Instructor, Containing A History Of Architecture From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
by Minard Lafever
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THE ARCHITECTURAL INSTRUCTOR, containing A History of Architecture from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; Illustrated with nearly 250 engravings of ancient, mediaeval, and modern cities, temples, palaces, cathedrals, and monuments; also, the Greek and early Roman classic orders, their principles and beauties; with a large number of original designs of cottages, villas, and mansions, of different sizes, accompanied with practical observations on construction ..
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New York: G. P. Putnam & Co, 1856. 1st edition. Cloth. Very Good +. 1st edition. Rebound in 20th century red cloth, with gilt title on spine. 4to., 526 pp., illustrated with 112 b&w, duo-tone and color plates. All 112 plates called for are here. Top edge gilt. 4 pages (title page, 1 end paper, and 2 Table of Contents pages) have old paper repair tape on the recto side; tape now browned. Light age-toning to the text; no foxing or browning to the text or plates. Very Good with Near Fine plates. Lafever was to earn a great fame in Brooklyn with a series of superb Gothic Revival churches, of which Holy Trinity (1844-7) is the largest and most famous, the Church of the Saviour nearby (1844) the most refined and exquisite.
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The Architectural Instructor: containing a history of architecture from the earliest ages to the present time. Illustrated with nearly 250 engravings of ancient, mediaeval, and modern cities, temples, palaces, cathedrals, and monuments; also, the Greek and early Roman classic orders, their principles and beauties; with a large number of original designs of cottages, villas, and mansions, of different sizes, accompanied with practical observations on construction [...] together with a glossary of architectural terms
by LAFEVER, Minard (1798-1854)
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New York: G.P. Putnam & Co, 1856. Quarto. (12 x 8 3/4 inches). 526 pp.; 111 lithographic plates, about half of which are duotone, and some printed in colors. Quarter modern morocco over contemporary cloth, top edge gilt. First edition, posthumously printed, of this influential manual by an esteemed Greek Revival architect - "the last of the best of the architectural vade mecums." Lafever was an influential Greek Revival architect, writing three books on Greek designs and details. This work, combines a history of architecture with a survey of a wide range of ancient and modern styles, all written in a style suited for Lafever's general readership of 19th-century Americans. As such the present work continues his goal established in earlier books, such as Beauties of Modern Architecture (1839), of reaching those who he termed the "everyday workman." illustrated with nearly 250 engravings. One historian calls The Architectural Instructor "the last of the best of the architectural vade mecums" from the…
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