Gateways and Doorways of Charleston, South Carolina: in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Book Description

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, gilt at spine toned, light fraying at head and tail, small closed split at rear joint at head, ownership signature at front pastedown, light foxing at preliminaries and sporadic throughout (as this volume was, unfortunately, very prone too), else tight, bright and unmarred. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, brown endpages, frontispiece. 4to. 68pp. Illus. (b/w plates). 1931 map of char. laid in (describe) "Map of Charleston, S.C." by City Engineer, J.H. Dingle (1931) laid in (evenly toned, discrete notations). 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. Overall, a presentable copy of this rather uncommon volume.

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