Paul Decker's Furstlicher Baumeister in Siebenundfunfzig Tafeln, Neu herausgegeben mit einer Einleitung von R. Dohme
Berlin: Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth, 1885. Hardcover. Blue marbled boards with tan spine/corners and black lettering on spine. Matching blue end papers. NOTE: Back board missing. 4 pp. text followed by 57 bw plates. Plates and text VG+, clean and tight. Exterior Poor: Back cover missing, back end paper torn and tape-repaired, and spine repaired with tape. Entire volume still secure. Item #145913
Text in German. Introduction by R. Dohme. Beautiful plates of architectural decor: "The designs [are] from the hand of young German architect Paulus Decker the Elder (1677-1713). His designs encouraged the imagination of those who followed him, rather than restricting them to his original ideas. 'Paul Decker the Elder excelled above all as an imaginative empirical architectural theoretician. Particularly with his idealized projects in the work Fürstliche Baumeister he influenced the aristocratic architectural patrons of Central Europe and their architects in the building of their palace residences. In the history of German architectural theory his building and decorative ideas, disseminated in engravings without textual commentary, constitute a turning point toward purely artistic representational style.' " (Hans Reuther, in Placzek).
Price: $175.00