About this title: The superbly illustrated and detailed handbook that popularized the use of classic Greek architectural style in America in the early and middle 1800s. 271 illustrations.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover Pubns/Peter Smith, Mineola, New York, U.S.A., 1988
ISBN-13:9780486258027ISBN:0486258025
Description: Quarto, softcover, near fine in light blue and gray pictorial wraps. The superbly illustrated and detailed handbook that popularized the use of classic Greek architectural style in America in the early and middle 1800s. 271 illustrations. 192 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DOVER PUBN INC
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780486258027ISBN:0486258025
Description: New. The superbly illustrated and detailed handbook that popularized the use of classic Greek architectural style in America in the early and middle 1800s. 271 illustrations. read more
Binding: Full-Leather
Publisher: Boston, MA, Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.
Date Published: 1851
Description: Poor. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Full-leather covers detached, but present. First endpapers loose, contents tight. Pages with text on them are foxed, the illustrations are mostly nice and clean. The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter; Illustrated By Sixty-Four Engravings, Which Exhibit the Orders of Architecture, and Other Elements of the Art; Designed for the Use of Carpenters and Builders. Amazing book, digital photos are available upon request. read more
Description: Benjamin B. Mussed & Co: Boston 1851. 64 plates, 11 x 9", full calf with gilt-ruled spine & gilt-lettering on spine label, 119pp, covers stained, scuffed, spotted, scratched, rubbed & very slightly warped, corners bumped & worn, spine tips worn with a sm bit of leather missing from right areas of spine, gilt lettering on label worn, inner hinges cracked, pencil name & drawing on front paste-down, rear paste-down has colored pencil lettering, staines, waterstains, foxing. Asher Benjamin was an ... read more
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