Sir William Chambers (Study in Architecture) Tapa dura - 1970

A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1970. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2150grams, ISBN:0302020764

Zwemmer, London, 1970,. 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0302020764 1st edition, hardback, large 4to, 2.1Kg., xvi,397pp, numerous illustrations, clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth gilt, front board slightly marked, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper; ISBN: 0302020764 .

TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book. Edition 1970. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1970. Hardcover. VG- (No dj; slight soil marks on cover; interior is crisp and clean, esp. plates.). Blue cloth, gilt letters and decoration on spine, 397 pp., 200 BW plates, 16 BW illus., weighs 4.5 lbs. Considers well the life and work of Scottish-Swedish architect William Chambers (1723-1796). With many illustrations of his work, including floor plans. The author explains his goals in the preface. "With Chambers I was faced with the problem of bringing together the unusually wide range of his interests, covering not only architectural design, but landscape gardeing, architectural writing and theory, the foundation of the Royal Academy, the Swedish East India Company, and the architectural profession. I therefore decided to present a series of self-contained articles, prefaced by a synposis of his life's events." Additional text was provided by J. Mordaunt Crook and Eileen Harris. Nice!

4to hardcover with dust jacket. 397 pp. VG+/VG+. Excellent, unread condition with minimal wear. Dust jacket is in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Previous owner's bookplate on the ffep. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

London : Zwemmer, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvi, 397 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates: illustrations, plans, portraits; 31 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) and indexes. ""Catalogue of work"": pages 195-256. John Harris was Keeper of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Subjects: Chambers, William Sir 1723-1796. Chambers, William Sir 1723-1796 Criticism and interpretation. Architects Great Britain. Architecture, British. Architecture, Modern 17th-18th centuries Great Britain. Dublin (Ireland) Buildings, structures, etc. Genre: Illustrated.

London : A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 397 pages, unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 31 cm. Series; Studies in architecture ; vol.9. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) and indexes. ""Catalogue of work"": pages 195-256. John Harris was Keeper of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Contents; Includes appendices: lists of portraits, exhibitions, sales, collections of Chamber's correspondence; bank account details; the Whitton Inventory (Royal Academy of Arts); inscription for a monument to the memory of Sir William Chambers; genealogical tables; description of the Franco-Italian album and list of the loose drawings of French and Italian buildings, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and letter of Sir William Chambers to a… Leer más

A. Zwemmer, London, first edition, 1970. Cloth, large 8vo, 30 cm,. xvi, 397 pp, 199 half-tone plates, 16 text ills. The first detailed study of Sir William Chambers, "an architect who dominated the professional and official architectural scene in his day. ...Chambers stands distinct from any other British architect in the eighteenth century. He was an Anglo-Swede, and was educated and trained in an international milieu. The range and depth of his thinking and scholarship were attributable to these circumstances. They are epitomized in the great Treatise on Civil Architecture of 1759, wherein is condensed and clarified all that had been written on architectural and philosophical thought. As an eclectic he chose the middle-of-the-road, and only occasionally did he willingly accept new ideas in architecture; yet in many ways his reasonableness makes his buildings more endearing. His love for Paris and French architecture is inherent in his first and last designs: for Frederick Prince of… Leer más

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