NOTRE DAME OF PARIS : 1962 TIME Reading Program, Special Edition

Allan Temko

Published by Time Incorporated, New York, NY, 1962

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Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated softcover/VG w/light edge wear & front spine fortified w/archival tape. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block. First published 1955; this is the 1962 TIME Reading Program Special Edition. Architectual biography of Notre Dame, Gothic cathedral of the Middle Ages, distinguished for its size, antiquity & architectural interest. Notre-Dame was built on the ruins of two earlier churches, which were predated by a Gallo-Roman temple dedicated to Jupiter. The cathedral was initiated by Bishop Maurice de Sully of Paris, who conceived it's conversion into a single building on ruins of the two earlier basilicas. Its foundation stone was laid 1163 by Pope Alexander III. This landmark book is from architectural critic & writer Allan Bernard Temko (1924 ? 2006). 343 pgs, 32 archival plates, 17 chapters in 5 parts: Part I, Origins; II, "The Renewal of All Things"; III, Notre-Dame; IV, Notre-Dame, The Classic Phase; V, The Completion of Notre-Dame, followed by The Passion of Notre-Dame and Appendix.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NOTRE DAME OF PARIS : 1962 TIME Reading Program, Special Edition
• Publisher: Time Incorporated, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1962
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Archival Photographs
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued