Author: Viollet-Le-Duc, E.:
Title: Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Française du XIe au XVIe siècle.
Description: Paris: Vr A. Morel & Co., 1875 except 1876 (vol. I), 1867 (II), 1868 (IV), 1870 (IX). 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.

Keywords: Middle Ages & Renaissance ;(Post-Renaissance) Arts & Literature


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