Franklin X Mccormick (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

Leather bound. Second. burgundy leather portfolio w/ gilt printing & button clasp. one introduction page; one index page & 130 bw illustrated sheets/plates. Contents are sectioned into Churches, Combination Buildings, Educational and Miscellaneous. In the Educational section, building Nine 'Our Lady Of Lourdes School' is printed as number fourteen; the correct fourteen, 'Monsignor Luckey High School' is present and printed correctly. This is the 1954 Second Edition. Approximately 7lbs for shipping. VG- (portfolio has scuffs, scratches; rubbing to corners & edges; clasp flap is torn & tattered w/ erosion but is able to securely fasten. intro page has light scuffs & smudges w/ tanning; index page is darkly tanned at front edges w/ scattered smudges. sheets/plates have light toning w/ instances of light smudges, marks; majority of pgs have light crimp/crease to lower & upper corners; light creasing & ink-ghosting to reverse).…

Condition: Good. Obloing folio. 12 x 15 inches. Original black simili-morocco portfolio with clasp. First edition with 130 loose plates, as issued. 3 pages of text with list of plates. OCLC Number 910761. A second edition was published in 1954.

Leather bound. A SUPERB COLLECTION OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS FROM THE 1940s AND 1950s. A leather folder contains a selection of xx loose plates. Each plate contains information on a single building, including such details as seating capacity and total cost ti build and furnish. There are both photographs of the building and architectural sketches. All information on each structure is on a single one-sided plate which measures 12 x 15 inches. A TOTAL OF 152 BLACK-AND-WHITE PLATES. The portfolio itself is a mix of plates from the 1945 and 1954 editions. There is an index included from the 1954 edition although not all 1954 plates are present (nor are all 1945 plates present). Almost all the plates are churches with about a dozen being other Catholic buildings (rectories, etc). The index for the 1954 edition calls for 140 plates of which 73 were churches and the rest primarily Catholic schools. While we do not have a 1945 index, we suspect someone preserved most of the Church designs from the two portfolios and discarded most of the drawings of schools etc.…