Author: FARGE, L. (editor)
Title: Les Concours Public D'Architecture
Description: Paris, Librairies-Imprimeries Reunies, Editeurs, 1906. Hardcover. 12-volume set. Folio (11" X 15"). Brown cloth with black calf spine labels with gilt lettering. Varying paginations (most ca. 200-400pp). Extensive heavy stock rectos-only plates. Overall very good. Mild edgewear and light age toning, with calf spine labels a but scuffed and rubbed. A, attractive, tight and sizeable gathering of this large and heavy French architectural journal, each volume laden with photographs, floor plans and other architectural renders. Each lower spine label identifies the focus of each volume -- in order: "Apartment Houses, Banks," "Barracks Churches," "City Halls," "Colleges, Court Houses, Expositions, Government Buildings," "Hospitals and Alm Houses," "Hotels, Insane Asylums," "Monuments Commemorative Museums," "Palaces Parks & Gardens Police Stations Railway Stations," "Schools," "Slaughter Houses," "Theaters, Town Planning" and "Text." A fascinating and enormous assemblage of architectural materials -- and rather scarce. Each front pastedown bears the handsome custom bookplate of Anker Sverre Graven (d. 1932), noted Chicago architect whose firm Graven & Maygers is best known for a string of high-profile commissions of glitzy, opulent movie palaces and other structures in the Midwest and elsewhere in the 1920s. The bottom of each spine bears a third, small black calf label bearing the giltstamped name of early 20th century Illinois architect C.D. McLane. .

Keywords: Architecture


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