Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Française du XIe au XVIe siècle.

Viollet-Le-Duc, E.

Published by Paris: Vr A. Morel & Co. except 1876 vol. I 1867 II 1868 IV 1870 IX, 1875

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10 vols. 8vo., [iv], xvi, 506 [ii]; [iv], 544 [ii]; [iv], 514, [ii]; [iv], 509, [iii]; [iv], 563, [iii]; [iv], 456 [ii]; [iv], 570 [ii]; [iv], 523, [i]; [iv]), 552 [ii]; Vol. X (Index) unpaginated and half blank for the reader's notes (none here). Photogravure portrait frontispiece to vol. I., copiously illustrated throughout. A little intermittent light foxing. Uniformly bound in quarter red morocco with marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered and patterned. Marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Shelf-wear to edges with fraying and slight loss to some corners, raised bands rubbed but otherwise spines bright and tidy: still a handsome set. Viollet-le-Duc's great Dictionary of Medieval and Renaissance French Architecture, reflecting his Gothic inclination. First published in ten volumes between 1854 and 1868, but here, as often, in a reissue of slightly later mixed dates. Seller Inventory # 54197

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Title: Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture ...

Publisher: Paris: Vr A. Morel & Co. except 1876 vol. I 1867 II 1868 IV 1870 IX

Publication Date: 1875

Binding: Hardcover