An Investigation of the Principles of Athenian Architecture, or the Results of a Recent Survey Conducted Chiefly with Reference to the Optical Refinements Exhibited in the Construction of the Ancient Buildings of Athens

Francis Cranmer Penrose

Society of Dilettanti; Longman; W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press; John Murray, 1851

Rare first edition. Folio.  39 x 55 cm. Bound in modern cloth backed marbled boards. Collated: 101 pages. Frontispiece and 41 plates.  Of the plates, 37 are engraved, 5 chromolithographed, and one folding.  Library perforated stamps on title page and all plate pages. (See our pictures.) The perforation touches the plate images.  Cello tape repair to frontis.  Blackmer 1283

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