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Eidlitz on Architectural Medals
Eidlitz, Robert James. MEDALS AND MEDALLIONS RELATING TO ARCHITECTS. COMPILED AND EDITED AND REPRODUCED IN GREAT PART FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT JAMES EIDLITZ. New York: Privately Printed, 1927. Folio, original blue cloth, gilt; top page edges gilt. xxxv, (5), 190, (2) pages; 1145 detailed descriptions; 125 fine plates. Very well preserved, with only some staining to the fore-edge, not affecting the pages, keeping it from fine. Number 139 of only 150 copies printed. Still the standard reference, and the only substantial work ever written on the topic. A handsome, imposing volume, finely illustrated and rendered on a scale no longer feasible. The author was a member of the prestigious New York building firm of Marc Eidlitz & Son, Inc., becoming its president a year after publication of this work. Some of the better-known structures built by the firm include the New York Stock Exchange, the Hotel St. Regis, the Connecticut State Library, the Atlantic Telephone & Telegraph Building, the Western Union Building and the Rockefeller Institute. Clain-Stefanelli 14186*.
Eidlitz, Robert James. MEDALS AND MEDALLIONS RELATING TO ARCHITECTS. COMPILED AND EDITED AND REPRODUCED IN GREAT PART FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT JAMES EIDLITZ. New York: Privately Printed, 1927. Folio, original blue cloth, gilt; top page edges gilt. xxxv, (5), 190, (2) pages; 1145 detailed descriptions; 125 fine plates. Very well preserved, with only some staining to the fore-edge, not affecting the pages, keeping it from fine. Number 139 of only 150 copies printed. Still the standard reference, and the only substantial work ever written on the topic. A handsome, imposing volume, finely illustrated and rendered on a scale no longer feasible. The author was a member of the prestigious New York building firm of Marc Eidlitz & Son, Inc., becoming its president a year after publication of this work. Some of the better-known structures built by the firm include the New York Stock Exchange, the Hotel St. Regis, the Connecticut State Library, the Atlantic Telephone & Telegraph Building, the Western Union Building and the Rockefeller Institute. Clain-Stefanelli 14186*.