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Architecture BOSC (Ernest) A Comprehensive Dictionary of Arc…
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156
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Architecture BOSC (Ernest) A Comprehensive Dictionary of Arc…
See original version (French)
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Architecture
BOSC (Ernest)
A Comprehensive Dictionary of Architecture and the Related Sciences and Arts. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1877–1880.
4 volumes, in-4; frontispiece portrait in volume 4, illustrations in the text, including numerous full-page illustrations, and 36 separate chromolithographic plates (6/9/11/10) numbered I–CII.
Contemporary half black shagreen, ribbed spine with gilt fillets and fleurons. A fine copy.
In his preface, Bosc could not fail to mention the similar work published by his illustrious colleague Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, which had appeared 20 years earlier. He sets out the advantages of his new dictionary, pointing out that Viollet le Duc’s work is not really a dictionary, that it is devoted solely to the Middle Ages and that, given the progress made since then, it has become obsolete.
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