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More imagesThe Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection: French Books, British Books, Northern European Books, Italian and Spanish Books. Volumes I-IV
MIDDLETON, Robin; Dora Wiebenson; Martha Pollak; Clara Baines; Gerard Beasley; Nicholas Savage; et al.
Published by National Gallery of Art; George Braziller, Washington DC; New York 2000
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- First Edition
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA)
Contact seller5-star sellerFour volumes. 4to. (12 x 9 inches). Complete as issued. Text with profuse illustrations. Each volume with a different color cloth with gilt lettering on spine and pictorial endpapers. In pictorial dust jackets in brodart A clean first edition set of an essential reference work on French, British, Italian, Spanish, and Northern E…uropean architectural books in the Mark J. Millard collection at the National Gallery of Art. A first edition, four-volume set of an essential architectural reference book on the Millard collection. Includes: Vol. I: French Books: Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. II: British Books: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. III: Northern European Books: Soxteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. IV: Italian and Spanish Books: Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Volume I: This is a catalogue of 172 French books on architecture, antiquities, and decoration, from the 16th into the 19th centuries, all in the Millard Collection at the National Gallery of Art. Includes important French translations of non-French works, and a few engineering books, along with some illustrated books containing scenes of architectural interest, views of interiors, etc. Each numbered entry provides bibliographic and physical descriptions, references, provenance where applicable, and contains a brief discussion of relevant points (the architect, the architecture, and so on).There are many black-and-white reproductions of drawings and engravings. Front of dust jack and endpapers are decorated with reproductions of engravings. Indexed. Vol. II: 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. Vol. III: A catalogue of 144 Northern European books on architecture, antiquities, and decoration, from the 16th into the 19th centuries, all in the Millard Collection at the National Gallery of Art. Introductory essay by Harry Francis Mallgrave. Bibliographic descriptions by Gerald Beasley, Claire Baines, and Henry Raine. Illustrated books containing scenes of architectural interest, views of interiors, etc. Each numbered entry provides bibliographic and physical descriptions, references, provenance where applicable, and contains a brief discussion of relevant points. There are many black-and-white reproductions of drawings and engravings. Indexed. Vol. IV: The Itallan books in the Millard collection constitute a significant segment of the architectural, archaeological, and topographical imprints published between 1486 and 1848 in various cities in the Italian peninsula. Included is a sampling of Spanish books, published between 1671 and 1800. As is abundantly clear from the previous volumes in this series, Italy was the epicenter of the architectural Renaissance and, if we include the ancient Roman Vitruvius, the source of virtually all the translated treatises found in the French, British, and northern European volumes. The Italian-speaking territories, and Rome in particular, were not only the wellspring of printed books and images but also the indispensable site to view the ruins of the ancient world and the triumphs of modern architecture. Included in this final volume are books illustrating Vitruvius's Ancient Rome, Leon Battista Alberti's Renaissance Florence, and Andrea P.
