Viollet-le-Duc - Storia d'una casa - 1873

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, History of a House, text and drawings by the author, Italian version by C. Pizzigoni, Milan, Carlo Simonetti Editore, undated, but presumably published in the 1870s.

A didactic and narrative work devoted to the design and construction of a house, in which the various stages of the architect’s work are illustrated: site selection, excavations, masonry, structures, stairs, roofs, artisanal processes and site organization.

246 numbered pages and 5 unnumbered
Total of 251 pages
Numerous architectural and technical illustrations in the text
Text and drawings by Viollet-le-Duc
Italian translation by C. Pizzigoni
Period binding in half leather with green cloth boards

Condition observed: binding well worn, with widespread abrasions, corner wear, losses and tears to the leather of the spine, upper cap damaged and the title partly legible in gilt. Interiors with browning, stains, foxing, creases, small tears, old restorations and handwritten notes on the initial pages. Copy complete of the declared pages, in the conditions documented in the photographs.