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MARK J. MILLARD ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION, VOL. IV ITALIAN AND SPANISH BOOKS FIFTEENTH THROUGH NINETEENTH CENTURIES.
Pollak, Martha D.
First edition. Scholarly catalogue of Italian and Spanish books on architecture, antiquities, and decoration, from the 15th into the 19th centuries, all in the Millard Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Italy produced illustrated architectural books that surpass those from any other publishing center in the originality of their content and in the elegance of their illustrations. Arranged by author-architect, each numbered entry provides bibliographic and physical descriptions, references, provenance where applicable, and contains a discussion of relevant points.Numerous black-and-white reproductions of drawings and engravings throughout. Indexed.
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MATRIX 30
Trade edition. Matrix 30, which celebrates the fourth decade of the series. Its customary diverse range of topics includes Kenneth Tynan, the diaries of Tirzah Ravilious, letters from Edward Gordon Craig to his grandson, the Septentrio Press, wood type from the Hamilton Type Museum, printers obituaries, Brazilian favela printing, the Art and Technics series, Klingspor Typefoundry, engraving on the Mississippi, Rowley Atterbury and the Westerham Press, the wood-engravings of Geoffrey Miller, and much else besides, including a rich and varied mixture of broadsides, engravings and prints.
Matrix...a clear and spacious attic, whose dormer windows overlook fields and trees, and in which one comes across new or forgotten, sometimes exotic, treasures.
LINDSAY NEWMAN
...that annual miracle. THE BOOK COLLECTOR
Matrix describes doings by people with great skill. But the real, and enduring strength and greatness is there is not a whisper of greed or commercialism. WILLIAM MASLAND, ARIZONA
Hello again Rosalind, ... I woke up tonight and panicked...I thought Matrix 29 should have been out already and that I missed it!! What a nightmare ... Anyway, I look forward to it, now that I have calmed down...
ULF ENGLEHARDT, STOCKHOLM
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