An American Country House
New York: Architectural Book Club Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. xxx, 99 plates. Original three quarter brown cloth over tan cloth tihw gilt lettering and ruling on cover, gilt lettering on spine.; in original illustrated dustjacket with black lettering on spine. Beige endpapers. Frontispiece photo. The title page printed in red and black, with vignette in lithography. Historiated initials. Mellor Meigs & Howe Architects. Illustrated with sixty-six plates of high-quality offset reproductions of b/w photographs and thirty-three plates of architectural drawings.
Sixty-six plates showing the exterior and interior of the property of Arthur E. Newhold are rendered in photo-lithography, with thirty-three plates featuring architectural drawings, all rendered lithographically. The arrangment of the book is designed the student of architecture, either technical or lay, "with this end in view great care has been taken to present the photographs and drawings in a logical sequence, and in such a way as to make the reference from the photographs to the drawings as easy as possible... under each caption is given a reference to the pages on which may be found the drawings that explain the photographs." (Introduction). Contains descriptive and photo-illustrated chapters on the house in Laverock, Pennsylvanis, and its history.
Dustjacket chipped along edges. Binding with light wear along edges, one half-inch clothed tear at bottom edge of cloth corner at front. Fair to very good+ condition. Item #56026
Price: $750.00