This volume brings together three books of documents and drawings produced between 1821 and 1858, and acquired in 1999 by the Virginia Historical Society. Written by architect Thomas R. Blackburn (1795-1867), the books illustrate architecture and the work of carpenters at the beginning of the 19th century and help identify the designers of certain
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This volume brings together three books of documents and drawings produced between 1821 and 1858, and acquired in 1999 by the Virginia Historical Society. Written by architect Thomas R. Blackburn (1795-1867), the books illustrate architecture and the work of carpenters at the beginning of the 19th century and help identify the designers of certain
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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1568984790. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2006. Olive green covers with blindstamped lettering on front and spine. Book is in very good plus condition. Dust jacket has slight creasing at top and bottom of spine and is in very good condition. 4to, 272 pages, 3.7 lb.; 4to 11"-13" tall; 272 pages.
Add this copy of In Jefferson's Shadow the Architecture of Thomas R. to cart. $207.00, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Princeton Architectural Press.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Virginia Historical Society/Princeton Architectural Press, New York. 2006. 272 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long-and unjustifiably-forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and his revered master: Thomas Jefferson. In these extraordinary books, we find Blackburn, at first a young carpenter, engaged in the construction of Jefferson's famed "academical village" at the University of Virginia. He simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of architectural study, guided, it appears, by Jefferson himself. The drawings he executed in the four decades that followed-extraordinary ink and watercolor explorations of his many residential and civic commissions-bear witness to his emergence as a mature and prolific architect in his own right. In Jefferson's Shadow is a unique document of the relationship between an unknown but highly skilled country builder and the American statesman widely considered this nation's first gentleman architect. But it is also an indispensable resource on the little-understood practice of architecture in the early and mid-nineteenth century.; 9.5 X 1.25 X 12.375 inches; 272 pages.
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