Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses
by Metcalf, Pauline C
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0879237775
- ISBN 13
- 9780879237776
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Boston Athenaeum / David R. Godine, Publisher, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, quarto sized volume bound in maroon cloth and in publisher's red pictorial dust-jacket. 208 pages. Selected Bibliography, Appendices [which contain a Chronology], Index. Illustrated with 26 color and nearly 200 black and white photographs. First edition. A resource for architects, decorators and historians, this work celebrates through exterior and interior photographs and floor plans the career of one of the most influential architects of the Gilded Age. Contains a chapter on his collaboration with Edith Wharton in the seminal book "The Decoration of Houses". No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, bright, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018444
- Title
- Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses
- Author
- Metcalf, Pauline C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0879237775
- ISBN 13
- 9780879237776
- Publisher
- The Boston Athenaeum / David R. Godine, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Interior Design, Classical Revival, The Gilded Age
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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