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First edition. 8vo in cloth with dust jacket. NF/VG+. Very light shelf wear to dust jacket. Book is in excellent, unread condition. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Braziller, 1974. Paperback. Good.

New York: Braziller, (1974), 1974. First American edition. 8vo; 128 pp.; 120 illustrations from photographs, plans, and drawings; bibliography. A very good paperback copy in pictorial wrappers. A survey of the French architect's work, with an emphasis on his anti-rococo sentiments and the role he played in the classical revival, as well as his elaboration of a theoretical definition of art, the reduction of the aesthetic of all fine art to the single principle of the imitation of nature.. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

First printing. Translation by James Emmons of "Étienne-Louis Boullée, 1728-1799, de l'architecture classique à l'architecture révolutionnaire" (Arts et métiers graphiques, 1969). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", shows moderate wear, with very mildly bumped outside corners. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. This work contains 120 b&w illustrations, as well as endnotes, glossary, chronology of the life of Boullée, selected bibliography, and an index. Price of $3.95 appears in upper outside corner of front cover. 128 pages.
"Boullée's work provides, as a matter of fact, some particularly illuminating insights into that permanent revolution, that great movement of ideas, that violent uprush of imagination which marked the history of the arts in the latter half of the eighteenth century. It helps us to understand how the backward-looking aesthetic of the champions of a return to antiquity was transformed into a forward-looking asethetic which is not unrelated to… Read More