Architectural Rending in Wash

"A manual for the student in the school of architecture and the draftsman in the office, the novice and the experienced man. Besides the rendering of elevations, the rendering of sections, of plans, and of detail drawings it treated minutely, and a chapter is devoted to suggestions upon work in full color and free sketching." Color frontispiece and filled with numerous black and white renderings by the famous architects of the day and diagrams of elevations.

Condition: The student edition less common then the 1921 first edition. Brown cloth boards with a two-tone pastedown to front board, and paper title block label to spine with title and author visible and readable. Both paste downs show age related discoloration. Boards and spine in very good condition with only minor wrinkles to top of the back strip. Bottom corners very slightly bumped but top remain sharp with none showing wear. The spine is straight, tight and hinges are sound with no cracking to the endpapers. Text block is solid and all pages firmly attached. Age tanning throughout. Book is from the library of Evans-Winter-Hebb, book plate on left endpaper, portion of the dustjacket attached to the front free endpaper, stamp to title page. Black piece of tape on lower back strip otherwise no other library marking. All internal pages are clean, with no tears, cracks or other previous owner marks.

Evans, Winter & Hebb of Detroit, Michigan was originally known as the Peninsular Engraving Company, founded before the turn of the 20th century. Housed in a Spanish Colonial Revival style building designed by Federick J. Winter they were the publisher of many pieces of ephemera that still exist today. By the 2000's the building housed the Wayne State University Bioengineering Department.

Harold Van Buren Magonigle (1867 – 1935) achieved his greatest success as a designer of monuments – the USS Maine and Fireman's Memorial in New York, Stevens T. Mason in Detroit, the Burritt Memorial in Connecticut, and the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. Born in New Jersey he opened his own practice in 1903 building numerous Mausoleums (McKinley and the Core at Elmwood Cemetery) in addition to authoring books. Works that have stood the test of time as stunningly beautiful.