Architectural Fantasy and Reality: Drawings from the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome, Concorsi Clementini 1700-1750

Book Description

University Park, PA: Museum of Art Pennsylvania State University, 1982. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very minor shelf/edge wear, ownership signature at front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Cream paper wraps, dark grey ink lettering, embossed decorative elements, color frontispiece. 4to. 178pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Bibliography. Appendix. Exhibition catalogue. Prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University in the winter of 1981-82 and centering on a collection of drawings from the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. From the library of noted architect and writer on architecture, J. Sadler. Sadler was prone to marginalia and laying in clippings and ephemera related to a given book’s subject. The presence of marginal notes or marks will be noted above and are absent if not so noted.

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