English

Early Philadelphia architects and engineers

xii, 285 p. 24 cm · "Originally designed for a trade publication, Building, a magazine that reaches every one engaged in the construction industry in Philadelphia, the different chapters were reprinted in a small number of copies after their appearance in the periodical, and of these only twenty-five complete sets of parts have been bound up in book form" -- P. iii-iv · I. William Strickland -- II. Pioneer builders -- III. Amateur architects and professional builders -- IV. Thornton, L'Enfant and Latrobe -- V. Benjamin H. Latrobe -- VI. Robert Mills -- VII. John Haviland -- VIII. Graff, Ellet, Trautwine and Kneass -- IX. Thomas U. Walter -- X. John Notman -- XI. Napoleon Le Brun -- XII. John McArthur · LC Copy 1 is no. 17 of the 25 bound copies; signed by the author. In Library buckram, trimmed to 23 cm.; has p. iii-iv bound in in reverse. Has LC accession no. 316517 dated 1923

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