Andrew N Prentice — Renaissance Architecture and Ornament in Spain

London, B T Batsford, 1893 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated with sixty plates, this is the impressive first edition of Andrew N. Prentice's study of Renaissance architecture and decorative ornamentation in Spain. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with sixty plates. Collated, complete.This work offers a study of Spanish Renaissance building and decorative design, surveying notable monuments and architectural details across Spain, documenting facades, interiors, and ornamental features.With the bookplate of James O'Byrne to the front pastedown.Offering insight into the forms and characteristics of Renaissance style as it developed in the Spanish context. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Back strip age toned, with boards bright. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small hole in cloth to back strip head and closed tear to back strip tail, and losses of cloth to tail of rear board, and tail and fore edge of front board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, leaves tenderly held and many detached but present, due to gutta percha. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot. Good Only . Ill.: Andrew N Prentice. Good Only .