77 133 Architecture Wright F L
77 133 Architecture  Wright F L
77 133 Architecture  Wright F L
77/ 133 [Architecture]. Wright, F.L. Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin, Wasmuth, 1910, 1st ed. and issue, 2 vols., text vol.: 30p. in loose fold. lvs., folio; 72 lithogr. plates (1x printed in gold) of which 28 attached to overlay printed plates (1 plate with 2 overlay plates) on thin paper (amounting to 100 differ. plates), each w. blindstamp of Frank Lloyd Wright, loosely inserted in 2 orig. unif. clothbacked printed portfolios, large folio.

- Title-p. and some text lvs. sl./ trifle foxed; one overlay w. sm. tear; for a great part plates (sl.) foxed, but mostly in margins; a few lvs. w. some minor defects along edges. Covers soiled; frontcover first portfolio chafed at left edge.

= A rare complete copy of this important work on and by America's most famous architect. The American edition of 500 copies, was, apart from a very few copies, entirely lost in a fire, making the German edition even rarer and more sought after. This publication introduced Wright's work to a larger audience in the U.S. and Europe. Provenance: library of the architect Constant Emil Alexander or his father sculptor August Alexander. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.

€ (8.000-10.000) 8000