Choix d'éléments empruntés à l'architecture classique : et donnant des exemples connus de l'application des ordres ... / 70 planches d'après les dessins et relevés de G. Gromort

George Gromort

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/3412

Author

George Gromort

Edition

3rd edition

Imprint

Paris: Aug^te Vincent, Éditeur, 4 Rue des Beaux-Arts, 4, 1920

Physical Description

8 pages, 70 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm.

General Note

Troisieme edition. Revue et augmentee de douze planches nouvelles. [title page].

Ouvrage honoré d'une souscripton du Ministère de l'instruction publicque et des beauxarts. [title page].

Title page in red and black

With 70 phototype plates.

Imperfect: Wanting plates 1, 2, 9, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 55 and 56.

Provenance

The verso of the title page carries a cream bookplate printed in red: `Ex Libris Hubert & Joan Worthington.’
The front pastedown carries a 20th-century Royal Academy of Arts bookplate on which is written `Presented by Lady Worthington.'
The front pastedown carries the maroon label of `J. Tiranti & Co., 13 Maple Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, W.1'

Binding Note

Quarter-bound portfolio with marbled covers and brown cotton ties.

Subject

Architecture - Greek
Architecture - Roman
Classical architecture

Contributors

Lady Joan Worthington, previous owner
Sir Hubert Worthington RA, previous owner
Auguste Vincent Éditeur, publisher
John Tiranti and Company (London)