The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection. Volume 2 British books, seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

Baines, C. ; Middleton, R. ; Beasley, G. ; National Gallery of Art (U.S.).

ISBN 10: 0807614327 / ISBN 13: 9780807614327

Published by National Gallery of Art, Washington / George Braziller, New York, first edition, 1998, 1998

About this Item

Cloth, 4to, 32 cm, xv, 392 pp, colour ills. From the blurb - "British Books is the second book in a series cataloguing more than six hundred rare illustrated books and bound series of prints on western European architecture, design, and topography, collected by the late Mark J. Millard. Among the books, all published between the end of the fifteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries, are numerous first or early editions. The almost one hundred titles catalogued in British Books trace the origins and development of architectural illustration in Britain. The collection is particularly rich in the eighteenth century, and includes almost all of the great folio albums recording the archaeological investigations of antiquity, such as James Stuart and Nicholas Revett s Antiquities of Athens, and most of the volumes documenting the architecture of Britain, such as Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus. Such books, intended for the gentleman-amateur's library rather than the architect's office or builder's workshop, reveal the British sensitivity concerning properly architectural representation of buildings. Here too are practical treatises for construction, ornament patterns for embellishment, surveys of fine and famous monuments, views of buildings in situ, and topographical surveys. Included are works by Robert and James Adam, Thomas Chippendale, John Neale, Humphry Repton, and Sir Christopher Wren." Near Fine in a dustwrapper which is faded around the spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection. Volume 2 British books, seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
• Publisher: National Gallery of Art, Washington / George Braziller, New York, first edition, 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0807614327
• ISBN 13: 9780807614327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture (Bibliographies)

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Synopsis

British Books is the second book in the series cataloguing more than six hundred rare illustrated books and bound series of prints on western European architecture, design, and topography, collected by the late Mark J. Millard. Among the books, all published between the end of the fifteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries, are numerous first or early editions. The almost one hundred titles catalogued in British Books trace the origins and development of architectural illustration in Britain. The collection is particularly rich in the eighteenth century, and includes almost all of the great folio albums recording the archaeological investigations of antiquity and most of the volumes documenting the architecture of Britain. These books, intended for the gentleman-amateur's library rather than the architect's office or builder's workshop, reveal the British sensitivity concerning properly architectural representation of buildings. Here, too, are practical treatises for construction, ornament patterns, surveys of monuments, views of buildings in situ, and topographical surveys. Included are works by Thomas Chippendale, John Neale, Humphry Repton, and Sir Christopher Wren.

About the Author

Robin Middleton is emeritus professor, Columbia University. Marie-Noelle Baudouin-Matuszek is an archivist at the Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique.