first edition Hardcover
1910 · New York
by Strack, Henry
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher brown cloth, red leather spine labels printed in gilt (scuffed with slight loss). Very good. 27 pages in text. Folio, 45 x 36 cm. Translated by Leigh Hunt. Fifty plates printed on glossy stock, most with multiple images -- photographs, drawings, plans, and details -- plus 103 figures in the text. The chief localities of brick -building regions are Tuscany, Umbria, Romagna, the Marches, Lombardy and Venice. Moderate extremity wear, interior contents clean and bright. (Inventory #: 18432)