Author: Mercanton, Jacques.
Title: Les Chateaux Magiques de Louis II de Baviere.
Description: (Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions Clairefontaine), (1963). (1963). - Small quarto [9-1/2 inches high by 8 inches wide], cream buckram in a dust wrapper. The top edges of the dust wrapper's front panel & flaps are darkened and the tail of its spine is lightly chipped. 156 & [1] pages plus colophon. Numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations by Pierre Strinati. The page edges are slightly darkened & the bottom page corners are bumped. Good.

The story of King Ludwig of Bavaria, exiled from France at the age of nineteen, and the baroque chateaux and their elaborate decorations in which his romanticism found expression. The text is in French. Good .

Keywords: HISTORY; ARCHITECTURE; LES CHATEAUX MAGIQUES DE LOUIS II DE BAVIERE; KING LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA; STATUARY; INTERIOR DECORATION; JACQUES MERCANTON; PHOTOGRAPHER; PIERRE STRINATI; RICHARD WAGNER; LINDERHOF; HOHENSCHWANGAU; NEUSCHWANSTEIN.

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