The Uses of Gothic Planning and Building the Campus of the University of Chicago 1892 - 1932
Chicago: University of Chicago Library, (1983). Henry Ives Cobb. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Oblong 4to. Pp. xx, 262. Foreword by Neil Harris. With appendices, notes and index. With reproductions of superb photographs, plans, sketches, etc. Endpaper maps. Bound in taupe cloth with the U of C seal stamped in brown on the front board, brown lettering on spine. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket that has a closed tear along the spine, mellowed creases on rear panel, and slight soiling on front panel. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Fine / Good. Item #6915
A fine treatment of the master plan and execution of the campus by Henry Ives Cobb, one of the finest examples of American the collegiate Gothic. Appendices focus on the landscaping plan designed by Olmsted Brothers, and those by Bennett Parsons & Frost, and Beatrix Farrand.
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