‎Société Centrale d'Architecture de Belgique (editor) - L'ÉMULATION - 1877-1878 :‎
‎EMULATION (L') - publication de la Société Centrale d'Architecture de Belgique. 1877 - 1878 (two complete years in one volume). Emulation .‎

‎".: 2. Bruxelles, Typographie Vromant et Lithographie Bourotte, 1877 - 1878 large in-folio, 54 x 40 cm, green half leather binding, marbled boards, top and end of spine damaged with loss of leather , worn at the extremeties. Year 1877, 3me année, (1)(title) + Titleplate + (1)(index) + 84 colums of text + 49 full page plates with illustrations of buildings and groundfloors, printed on recto side only. (Bound with) Year 1878, 4me année, (1)(title) + lithograph title + 84 colums of text + (1)(index) + 51 plates + 1 unnumbered plate. One volume with two complete years of the leading Belgian architectural periodical. It describes and illustrates designs and newly built projects by e.g. J. Baes, Janlet, Ysendyck, Dumont. For 1878; G. Hansotte, Janlet, Bordiaux, Van Ysendyck with e.g. articles on ''Le Prison de Tournai, Le Théâtre de la Monnaie, Eglise St. Marie à Schaerbeek''. Ex-library with a few small stamps, apart from the worn binding and some slight foxing, mainly on the textleaves, a reasonably good copy."‎

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