Discourses on Architecture (2 Volume Set)

2 volume set. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Folded frontispieces, illustrations and plans, some folded. Contemporary cloth jacket. No date, . Translated from the French by Benjamin Bucknall. Also pub. under title: Lectures on architecture. "For us, today, Viollet-le-Duc is a figure of considerable importance because he is the last great theorist in the world of architecture, and the modern architect still leans heavily on verities which he expounded . his principal legacy to architectural thought is contained in the two dictionaries and the lectures - most clearly of all in the first volume of the latter." - Heavenly mansions, p. 135. "In these volume you will find all the architectural school you will ever need." - Frank Lloyd Wright. From the library of Thomas J. D. Fuller Jr. (1870-1940), a prominent Washington, DC architect, with his signature.