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1924 McKim, Mead & White
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, Signed
The first edition of this scarce work.
Author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper, 'To Peter with the author's affection & admiration, C. H. R. 26.6.24'.
An interesting volume looking into the architectural work of the firm McKim, Mead & White.
McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm that embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance in New York during the fin de siecle.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty-six plates, highlighting some of the best works of the firm.
By Charles Herbert Reilly.
Collated, complete.
Bookplate of E. Peter Jones to the front paste down.
Condition
In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally, with a tide mark to the extremities of the front board, and a few other lighter marks to the boards. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Author's inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with just a few spots to the first few pages. Frontispiece is detached but present.
Good
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