American Architects and Their Books to 1848
Contributors: Kenneth Hafertepe (Editor); James F. O'Gorman (Editor)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781558492820
Subjects: Architecture; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Other prose: 19th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Books & Reading; 19th Century Architecture; Books And Reading; United States - General; Individual Architect; USA; History - General; United States; Publishing; 18th century; 19th century; Architectural writing; History
Description: "Since the Renaissance books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, twelve historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period when the profession of architecture was first emerging in the United States.".

"The essays in this volume range from studies of architectural publications available in the colonies to the appearance of American architectural incunabula to the revolution in architectural publishing that occurred in the 1830s and 1840s."--BOOK JACKET.