Corner James E E Soderholtz (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Second Edition. Large folio with a number of interesting photographic plates featuring early American domestic architecture. Contains 46 plates, Missing plates #29, #32, #43, #46. Bound in cloth. Covers lightly worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Folio, original folding linen case, gilt stamped, moderate wear, 3 preliminary leaves of text + 47 (of 50) plates - lacking #3, #36 & #40 - all handsomely executed by the Heliotype Printing Company, in heliotype. The images remain as useful, historically accurate documents of the appearance, circa 1890-1892, of numerous interiors and exteriors of these model examples of New England Colonial architecture, with abundant details shown in close-up images. This copy acquired in 1970 by Peter Spang from Charles Wood, who had gotten it from Ken Leach in the late 1960's. HITCHCOCK 290.

Slipcased. Folio of brown marbled boards with 3/4 moss green cloth. Gilt lettering on left-hand side of front cover. Contents of loose, single sheets of heavy stock: title page, introduction, and list of plates (4 pp. total) followed by the 50 bw plates (complete). All housed in a fawn buckram chemise and slipcase with gilt lettering. Heavy (8 pounds) and a bit oversize and will require extra shipping. The two-page introduction accompanies full-page photographs. Each plate includes the architectural feature being shown, the name of the house, its location, and year built. A lovely set. Ex-lib. copy with plate inside front cover and perforation stamp on title page. Plates are VG and clean but with number stamp on reverse. "Reference" stamp on reverse of Plate 50. No bleedthrough to front side. Folio beautiful but with general shelf wear/rubbing and with white call number on lower spine. Inventory sticker on slipcase.

CORNER, James M., and E.E. Soderholtz. EXAMPLES OF DOMESTIC COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN NEW ENGLAND. Boston: Bates & Guild, 1901. Folio. Half-calf. (8) pages, 50 plates. This is the first of a series of books produced by Corner and Soderholtz that photographed existing examples of colonial architecture. Their photographs a thought to be the first to document early American architecture in book form. Spine and tips professionally repaired, else a very good copy.