Author: Société Centrale d'Architecture de Belgique (editor) - L'ÉMULATION - 1881 - 1882 :
Title: EMULATION (L') - publication de la Société Centrale d'Architecture de Belgique. 1881 - 1882 (two complete years in one volume). Emulation .
Description: .: 2. Bruxelles, Imprimeur Leys, 1881 - 1882/83, large in-folio, 54 x 40 cm, green half leather binding, marbled boards, top and end of spine damaged with some loss of leather, extremeties worn. Year 1881, 7me année, (1)(title) + titleplate + 36 colums of text + (1)(index) +53 full page plates with illustrations of buildings and groundfloors, printed on recto side only. (Bound with) Year 1882/83, 8me année, (1)(title) + lithograph title + (2)(index) +72 colums of text + (4)(supplement) + 50 plates. One volume with two complete years of the leading Belgian architectural periodical. It describes and illustrates designs and newly built projects by e.g. G. Bordiau, E. Legraive, Ch. Licot. For 1882/83 ; Viollet-Le-Duc with the restoration of Château Pierrefonds. Ex-library with a few small stamps, apart from the worn binding and some slight foxing, mainly on the textleaves, a reasonably good copy. .

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