Pyramids and Palaces, Monsters and Masks: The Golden Age of Maya Architecture (The Collected Works of George F. Andrews) 3 Vols. [COMPLETE]

Lancaster, California: Labyrinthos, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Quarto. xviii, 350, xii, [1] 320, xi, [4] 382pp. Original bright red cloth with gilt-stamped Mayan imagery on cover, black lettering and gilt ruling on spine. Black , anthracite, and gray endpapers. Illustrated double title pages. Extensive list of figures and tables at front of each volume. Bibliography at rear of first & third volume. Third volume with index to the three volumes at rear. Laid into volume three a fold-out with reproductions of architectural color photographs and b/w architectural plans, as issued.

Profusely illustrated collection of writings on Mayan architecture and culture presented at meetings here and abroad, and published in foreign journals. Contains maps, charts, architectural drawings and plans, b/w photographs of Mayan architecture, and illustrations of Mayan iconography and symbolism. Extensive publication focusing on Mayan culture in the Puuc and Northern Plains regions of the Yucatan Peninsula in present-day Mexico, Chenes and Rio Bec regions in the Central area, Southern regions, as well as pan-Maya topics.

Vol. 1: Architecture of the Puuc Region and the Northern Plains Areas.
Vol. 2: Architecture of the Chenes Region.
Vol. 3: Architecture of the Rio Bec Region and Miscellaneous Subjects.

Author's preface: "...the papers in all three volumes of these collected works are interpretive studies based mostly on my own Architectural Data Bank for the lowland Maya area, which has been thirty-five years in the making (1960-1995). These data, which could also be called a corpus of Maya Architecture, consist of three major components: (1) detailed descriptive data, including dimensions of both interior and exterior architectural, decorative, and construction features for all buildings recorded; (2) architectural drawings (sketch, maps, plans, sections, elevations, details and restored views of these buildings); and (3) photographs of all buildings recorded, showing them in their present form–which ranges from unexcavated and only partly standing to substantially excavated and partly restored.