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Building Plans and Designs

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Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: 100 plates of drawings and plans by Wright, with text booklet by William Wesley Peters, all loose as issued in cloth & boards portfolio. No. 366C of 2600 copies.
First published in Berlin in 1910-11 as Ausgefuehrte Bauten und Entwuerfe. A portion of that edition was slated for American distribution, but all but one of those copies were destroyed by a fire at Taliesen in 1912. It is from that one copy that the present edition is reproduced, in accordance with Frank Lloyd Wright's wishes as discussed with the publisher in 1958.
Heading: zze
Place Published:New York
Publisher Name: Horizon Press
Date Published: [1963]

An ex-library copy with several rubberstamp markings on text booklet, plates not stamped. Light wear to portfolio, one ribbon tie broken; else very good.

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