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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 9 1/4" x 12" 239pp. Black boards. photo frontispiece. 100's of color, and black and white photographs throughout. Rubbing to the corner tips, othewise a clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has light edgewear, otherwise a near fine. "John Russell Pope is considered one of America's finest and most important classical architects, and this lavishly illustrated book, long overdue, is the first comprehensive survey of his work. This definitive study, comprised mainly of projects dating from 1910 to 1937, includes the Jefferson Memorial, the National Gallery of Art, Constitution Hall, the National Archives, and the Temple of the Scottish Rite in Washington, D.C.; the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Duveen Sculpture Gallery (for the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon) at the British Museum and the Sculpture Hall at the Tate Gallery, both in London; mansions for the Vanderbilts and Marshall Field; and campus plans for the Yale and The Johns Hopkins Universities."
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VG-/VG-(book shows minimal wear at top and bottom of spine and corners, all pages clear and intact-dust jacket shows minor rubbing at edges) Black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering on spine, black dust jacket with color illustration. 239 pp. Profusely illustrated with bw and color photographic images. "John Russell Pope is considered one of America's finest and most important classical architects, and this lavishly illustrated book, long overdue, is the first comprehensive survey of his work. This definitive study, comprised mainly of projects dating from 1910 to 1937, includes the Jefferson Memorial, the National Gallery of Art, Constitution Hall, the National Archives, and the Temple of the Scottish Rite in Washing DC; the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Duvean Sculpture Gallery at the British Museum and the Sculpture Hall at the Tate Gallery, both in London; mansions for the Vanderbilts and Marshall Field, ; and campus plans for Yale and The Johns Hopkins Universities. Steven McLeod Bedford follows the architect's career from his early education through his development as one of the most important figures in classicism, examining every aspect of Pope's architectural output, from his residential and commercial projects to his museums and monuments. Illustrated with archival photographs and Jonathan Wallen's never-before-published new color photography, John Russell Pope: Architect of Empire captures the enduring beauty and significance of this American master's oeuvre."-dust jacket description.
