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Lot 10

Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019 9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[ARCHITECTURE] -- SLATER, J. Atwood (fl 1883-1906). 2 sketchbooks, ca 1878-1880.


2 volumes, oblong 8vo (131 x 181 mm). Comprising 110 detailed pen-and-ink or pencil drawings (a few with watercolor), many with titles, dated, or signed. (Some minor soiling, otherwise fine). Contemporary quarter green roan, green cloth (spines defective, some wear). SIGNED BY SLATER inner front covers, manuscript index, manuscript notes lower pastedowns. Includes drawings of churches, public buildings, and architectural details in London, Somerset, Bristol, Devon, Paris, Rouen, Fontainebleau, Beaune, Dijon, Reims, Geneva, Lausanne, Fribourg, and Strasbourg. Slater was a silver medallist of the royal Academy of Arts, and was awarded the Sharpe prize by the Royal Institute of British Architects. 

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