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Author: Andersen, Hendrik Christian and Ernest M. Hébrard
Title: Creation of a World Centre of Communication
Place Published: Paris
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Date Published: 1913
Description: Illustrated with heliogravure plates throughout, many folding. (Folio) 45x31 cm (18x12¼"), half brown morocco, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 92 of 300 in the édition Anglaise, printed on papier Velin à la cuve. First Edition.The culmination of Hendrik Christian Andersen's (1872-1940) internationalist-utopian vision of a World City, centrally planned and built to foster universal human cooperation and the arts. The first section is a history of city planning, the second lays out his plans for the city itself. Both sections lavishly illustrated with architectural drawings, plans, and model sculptures, alongside detailed explanatory texts providing rationale and historical background. Each element of the city is accounted for, from an Olympic stadium and complex to government buildings. Andersen believed that the ideal physical environs of a city as well as a plethora of cultural offerings would stimulate mankind towards cooperation and self-improvement; his vision was shared by many artists, architects, and the international-minded in the halcyon days just preceding the first World War.

Light to moderate foxing, plates offsetting, very good.