Kevin D. Murphy — Memory and Modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vezelay

Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Cloth. A highly illustrated study of the work of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, review copy. Scarce work. Illustrated highly with frontispiece and fifty-three images, many of which are full page. Collated complete. A detailed study of the work of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, a French architect and author best known for his restoration of prominent medieval landmarks in France including the Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, and Mont Saint-Michel. Written by Kevin D. Murphy, an American architectural historian and lecturer. includes original Penn State University Press review request to the front endpaper. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original black cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.