Author: Thomas Hope
Title: An Historical Essay on Architecture and Illustrations to Hope&Apos;S Essay on Architecture
Description: London , John Murray, 1835. Cloth. The second edition of Hope's eminent essay on Architecture, scarce with the essay and illustrations together. Complete in Two Volumes. Volume One contains the essay and Volume Two contains the illustrations. Illustrated from Drawings made by him in Italy and Germany. With Ninety-Seven Plates, collated, complete. "Hope mastered the vast knowledge of classical art and architecture accumulated in the eighteenth century in order to interpret and publicize it. He did as much as anyone in England to promote neo-classicism but his interests were wider and more complex; he was equally a proponent of the English picturesque and linked both as valid components of a wider Romantic movement" -ODNB. In a cloth binding, with gilt reference numbers to the spine. Externally, slightly bumped, with slight soiling. The joints are just starting but still firm. The hinges are starting with the front hinge of volume two strained. Internally, volume one is generally firmly bound, and in volume two, the binding is slightly strained in places, with the first two plates only partially attached. There is light browning to the page edges of volume one, with occasional light spots or marks. In volume two, there is scattered foxing to the plates. There are tidemarks to the fore-edge margin of the first few plates in volume two, that slightly affect the illustrations. There are library blindstamps to several pages in volume one, and to each plate of volume two, with lending bookplates and some ink marks to the pastedowns. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: Architecture Illustrated Design Germany Illustrated Neo-Classicism None
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Title: An Historical Essay on Architecture and Illustrations to Hope&Apos;S Essay on Architecture
Description: London , John Murray, 1835. Cloth. The second edition of Hope's eminent essay on Architecture, scarce with the essay and illustrations together. Complete in Two Volumes. Volume One contains the essay and Volume Two contains the illustrations. Illustrated from Drawings made by him in Italy and Germany. With Ninety-Seven Plates, collated, complete. "Hope mastered the vast knowledge of classical art and architecture accumulated in the eighteenth century in order to interpret and publicize it. He did as much as anyone in England to promote neo-classicism but his interests were wider and more complex; he was equally a proponent of the English picturesque and linked both as valid components of a wider Romantic movement" -ODNB. In a cloth binding, with gilt reference numbers to the spine. Externally, slightly bumped, with slight soiling. The joints are just starting but still firm. The hinges are starting with the front hinge of volume two strained. Internally, volume one is generally firmly bound, and in volume two, the binding is slightly strained in places, with the first two plates only partially attached. There is light browning to the page edges of volume one, with occasional light spots or marks. In volume two, there is scattered foxing to the plates. There are tidemarks to the fore-edge margin of the first few plates in volume two, that slightly affect the illustrations. There are library blindstamps to several pages in volume one, and to each plate of volume two, with lending bookplates and some ink marks to the pastedowns. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: Architecture Illustrated Design Germany Illustrated Neo-Classicism None
Price: GBP 290.00 = appr. US$ 414.12 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: GEN17-H-3
- Book number: GEN17-H-3
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