The Architectural Instructor, Containing A History of Architecture

LAFEVER, Minard.  THE ARCHITECTURAL INSTRUCTOR, CONTAINING A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1856. Small folio. Publisher's quarter green leather, cloth boards. 526 pages, 112 lithographed plates, of which many are tinted or colored. First edition. [Hitchcock, 686].

Lafevre's rarest book.  Minard Lefever (1798-1854) is primarily known as a gifted Greek Revival architect and author of three books of Greek Revival designs and details.  This book "his last great book" and published after his death, embraces his designs in Italian, Tuscan, Gothic, Grecian and Roman styles.  Signature of prominent St. Louis architect, Thomas Walsh (1826-1890), on front blank leaf. 

Professionally respined with original spine used as an overlay.  Internally, very good.

 

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