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Description:
Le Corbusier et P. Jeanneret
Première série
A Paris : éditions Albert Morancé, 30-32, Paris, 1927, First Editon.
In French.
Quarto, 11.5 inches (28 cm.) high.
[2] p. blank, half title. (with "Extrait de L'Architecture Vivante'" and publisher's address and device on verso of half title), Title page, 38 pages of Contents, text and plans plus 25 plates (photographs and architectural drawings, one partly colored) on card stock printed on one side. Final [3] p. blank. variant publisher’s device on back cover.
Plates have imprint: "L'Architecture vivante Automne MCMXXVII [1927]. éditions Albert Morancé."
The publication was issued as a portfolio of paper-covered boards with ties containing the sheets of text and the loose plates.
The original portfolio of loose text pages and plates has been professionally transformed into a bound book. This was probably done soon after the portfolio was published.
Each leaf and plate has been individually and carefully attached to a paper hinge, and the hinges were then sewn and bound with marbled end-papers in marbled-paper covered boards with cloth spine and corners. The original portfolio covers were then attached on top of the new covers.
Unfortunately, at a later time the original front portfolio cover became detached and was lost, and only the rear porfolio cover remains attached.
All items listed on Table des Matieres are present in the re-incarnated portfolio and all are in excellent shape.
In addition to the two articles by Le Corbusier, the book includes
"Le Palais de la Société des Nations," by Jean Badovici.
Very scarce portfolio documenting several of Le Corbusier’s major architectural and urban planning projects from the 1920s.
Condition:
Very Good Contents and Good+ Covers.
The portfolio re-born as a book is complete and clean except for the loss of the top cover of the original portfolio. The title and half-title pages have light foxing and a few pages have very light marginal foxing or light age-toning.
The binding is in excellent shape.
The front board has some adhesive spots and light surface tears at the margins where the original portfolio board had been attached. The rear board has edgewear and a small surface abrasion. Only a portion of the original cardboard backstrip is present but the cloth spine is in excellent shape.
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