CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

SIMONS, Albert, and Samuel Lapham. CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. New York: America Institute of Architects Press, 1927. Folio. Cloth. 220 pages, including many illustrations. First edition. Originally published as Volume I of The Octagon Library of Early American Architecture, but is the only volume published. A comphehensive volume on South Carolina architecture divided into three sections -- The Pre-Revolutionary Period; The Post-Revolutionary Period; and The Ante-Beullum Period. With an introduction by Samuel Gaillard Stoney. Richly illustrated with photographs of the main city houses, plantation houses, public buildings, and churches and line drawings with floorplans and numerous architectural details. Very good.