Discourses On Architecture; Translated With An Introductory Essay, By Henry Van Brunt

Boston: James R. Osgood And Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth, backstrip and front cover decorated in gilt. Very good. Viollet-Le-Duc, E.E. XX, [2] 517 pages. 26 x 17.5 cm. Large fold-out plate a frontispiece., with an additional 17 black and white plates, many are also fold-outs. More than 100 text figures. Brunt, a prominent Boston architect produced designs for many buildings in the Boston area, including Harvard University's Memorial Hall: a fine example of Ruskinian Gothic architecture. Modest extremity wear, owner inscription dated 1875, bookplate.