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Good. Printed L'An IX (1801), oblong elephant folio, measuring 28 x 20.75 inches, with engraved title page, engraved plate list, and 90 plates, collated complete. Binding is half black niger and old black pebbled cloth boards, with leather spine label-a recent binding, though the boards appear to be at least a hundred years old. Contents good, with some tide lines from damp stains to bottom left, and marginal dampstains to bottom and right corner, some quite marked, others very faint and hardly noticable; overall the contents are good. All plates in their unfolded states--some sets were bound with double page plates on hinges.
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Good. 2 volume set. Folio. Engraved title, 90 double-page engraved architectural plates. Modern 1/2 black leather over marbled boards, raised bands, leather spine labels. House in custom blue cloth clam shell case. All pages linen backed. Marginal loss to title, table and first 4 plates. Restoration to title page, following pages and several pages. Soiling to plates, heavy soiling to the first few plates of Volume I, offsetting and foxing to plates. An important work in the history of architecture. First edition of the "first survey of world architecture based on building types"-RIBA. "Durand's lasting contribution is the separation of architecture from its traditional association with nature and with style." Durand "was the first architectural theoretician to clarify architectural objects by their common formal characteristics-to establish a rational science of design through standardization of functional topology. In the Recueil, Durand totally overturns the traditional relation between architecture and nature in favor of abstraction based on a scientific method of classification by type. His concept of architecture is in perfect agreement with the prevailing political philosophy and its emphasis on utility." (Millard 174-75) Brunet II, 904; British Architectural Library 956. Millard, French 67. Mongland V, cols 349-353 (list of plates). BMC VII, 961.887. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Fair (heavy wear to boards, taped spine repair, light foxing, light water damage to top corner of many of the plates. ) Oversized tan cloth boards, marble illustrated end papers; 88 pp text followed by bw plates numbered 1-258 (missing plates 35, 40, 65, 70, 71, 81, 84, 92-93, 95, 111-120, 127, 131-137, 141-146, 154-156, 164, 185, 187, 207-212, 213, 224-228, 230-249, 254, 256-257). There are two each of plates numbered 36 and 37, with different images. One volume of a 4 volume set. Text is in parallel Italian and French. The general architectural history of J.G. Legrand.