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ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS IN EARLY AMERICA, ARCHITECTURAL TREATISES AND BUILDING HANDBOOKS IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES THROUGH 1800.
Schimmelman, Janice G.

   

- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press 1999
- 8vo.
- cloth, dust jacket.
- ix, 221 pages.
- ISBN 9781884718991 ; 188471899X / Order Nr. 105339
- Price: $ 40.00



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First edition. This annotated bibliography describes 147 architectural treatises and building handbooks that were available in American libraries and bookstores prior to 1800. The books listed were highly influential in colonial America. Originally published as part of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY in 1985, this revised and expanded edition is the first hardcover edition. ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS IN EARLY AMERICA is an essential and valuable tool for collectors and students of early American architecture.

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MATRIX 21 WINTER 2001.

Printed in an edition limited to 825 copies, this being one of 745 copies which are bound in stiff paper wrappers. This issue of Matrix contains thirty articles including "Memories of an Apprentice Typefounder," by James Mosley, "Engraving a Dead Man," by Gaylord Schanilec, "Cockerel's Forgotten Partner, and Eric Gill's Last Commission," by Roderick Cave, "Frederic Prokosch: a Passion for Self-Publishing," by James Lorson, "Book-jackets," by Michael Harvey, "Earth Pigments in Plant Papers," by Maureen and Brian Richardson, "., ; : ' ( ) ! ?" by John Grice, "Private Press Books 2000: a Review," by David Chambers and more. Illustrated throughout with photographs, wood engravings, and sample papers as well as an extensive variety of tipped-in specimens printed on special papers. The two-color wood-engraving on the dust jacket is "Blacksmiths II," by Rachel Reckitt. Prospectus for the Matrix index scheduled for publication in 2002 is loosely laid-in.




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