Discourses on Architecture (2 Volume Set)

Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugene Emmanuel. translated by Benjamin Bucknall

Ticknor and Company, 1889

2 volume set. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Folded frontispieces, illustrations and plans, some folded. Contemporary cloth jacket.  No date, . Translated from the French by Benjamin Bucknall.  Also pub. under title: Lectures on architecture.  "For us, today, Viollet-le-Duc is a figure of considerable importance because he is the last great theorist in the world of architecture, and the modern architect still leans heavily on verities which he expounded ... his principal legacy to architectural thought is contained in the two dictionaries and the lectures - most clearly of all in the first volume of the latter." - Heavenly mansions, p. 135.  "In these volume you will find all the architectural school you will ever need." - Frank Lloyd Wright. From the library of Thomas J. D. Fuller Jr. (1870-1940), a prominent Washington, DC architect, with his signature.