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Seller's Description:
Illustrations by Suzanne Carlson. Narrow folio. Beige cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 205pp. Extensive line drawings, text endpapers. Fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn, with spine lightly sunned. Handsome, tight first edition of this study of colonial-era architects, those of the north and those of the south, and the major structures they built. This copy bears a fine and appropriate philatelic addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a First Day Cover bearing at upper right the ten-cent four-piece "Bicentennial Era" stamps (one of which depicts Carpenters' Hall, another Independence Hall), 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Philadelphia on 4 July 1974 and with "First Day of Issue" so noted. Fine. Large pictorial color cachet "Commemorating 1774 1st Continental Congress" cachet fills the leftmost side.
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G+/G+ (book shows minor foxing along top third of textblock, previous owner's inscription on front page, all pages clear and intact-dust jacket price clipped on front flap, significant fading at spine and on front bottom corner, wear at edges, still... Cream linen covered boards with gold spine lettering, orange and illustrated dust jacket with black lettering on cover and spine, 205 pp., bw illustrations. "John Miller deals solely with colonial architects and the buildings they designed from New Hampshire to South Carolina, and not with the product of carpenters and master builders. Over two hundred line illustrations document their work. Inasmuch as most of the buildings dealth with were wealthy gentlemen, the Anglican Church or the government the book is also a view of the history of upper-class life in the American Colonies; their ecclesiastical, governmental and educational activites. Millar accomplishes his aim to present drawings and verbal descriptions of all the buildings built in the Colonies by people who deserved the title of architect."-dust jacket description.
