Author: VIOLLET-LE-DUC Eugène
Title: Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Française du XIe au XVI Siècle [10 uniform volumes, complete].
Description: Paris, Morel, 1868-1874 Photogravure portrait frontispiece, (4), xvi, 506pp; (4), 544pp; (4), 512pp; (4), 509, (1)pp; (4), 563, (1)pp; (4), 456pp; (4), 570pp; (4) , 523, (1)pp; (4), 552pp; 440pp. 24x17, quarter bound, red morocco spines with raised bands, glt lettering, patterned boards, glt top edge. Edges of the boards shelf-worn, some light rubbing to spines, a few other marks, light foxing to scattered pages, Vol I has a catalogue of Batsford titles neatly inserted to the ffep, and also has a dedication and other neat annotations on the fly leaf, good uniform set thus. Viollet-le-Duc's famous and influential architectural dictionary, embodying his knowledge and experience of medieval architecture. The author also intended this epic work to have contemporary practical and stylistic applications. This set is uniformly bound, but from the dates it includes some reprints of the earlier volumes (I - 1873; II - 1874; III to VI - 1868; VII and VIII - 1869; IX - 1870, X - 1871). Volume X is the original printing with blank facing pages for readers to add their own notes. The ownership dedication is that of George Hornblower (1858-1940), son of the Liverpool and Birkenhead architect Lewis Hornblower. George went on to practice in his own right, spending much of his career as the consulting architect to University College Hospital in London.

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