The Mark J. Millard architectural collection: Northern European Books Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries Tapa dura - 1998

National Gallery of Art, Washington / George Braziller, New York, first edition, 1993. Cloth, 4to, 32 cm,. xii, 415 pp. From the blurb - "Northern European Books is the third volume in a series cataloguing more than six hundred illustrated books and bound series of prints. All were collected by the late Mark J. Millard, whose many interests included the study of European architecture, design, and topography. Now housed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Millard collection comprises books published between the end of the fifteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries. Many are rare first and early editions. Here, an introductory essay placing the books in their historical context is followed by detailed bibliographical descriptions. The Millard books demonstrate how architectural developments in the German Renaissance, encompassing the Vitruvian tradition, reveal the influence of ancient Rome and Renaissance Italy. This is traced through the treatises of such artists as… Leer más

Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1998. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 31 x 23 cm. Quarto. 415pp. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Indexed, illustrated, extensive bibliographical descriptions of each book. Volume 3 only. Jack spine is faded.