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DATA BOOK. ENGLISH
Title:Practical architecture. Juan Carpinell. Trilla y Serra.
Theme:Architecture and Construction.
Author:Juan Carpinell.
Language:Spanish.
Period: Year 1885 approximately.
Edition:First
Quantity:Unknown
Publisher:Trilla y Serra, Editores.
C/ Baja de San Pedro, Nº17 Barcelona
Printer:Damián Vilarnau.
C/ Caspe, Nº98 Barcelona
ISBN:Does not have.
Measurements:High:35,8 cm.
Width:28,6 cm.
Thick:3,4 cm.
Pages:Text 136 + Indexs 2 + Illustrations 134.
Weight:2.670 gr.
QualitySewn binding of good execution.
Low quality paper.
Hard covers of good execution.
Conservation:Regular.
Description of the Content:
- The book, written in Spanish, is conceived as a work and consultation tool, both for construction professionals and for any other person interested in the subject of architecture and construction. The content is very well structured and of great interest.
- It is printed from 1884 onwards, since, although it is not dated, on page 53 of the text the date is 15 February 1884.
- The author Juan Carpinell, master builder, compiles and arranges all the extensive information, with the collaboration of architects and other construction professionals.
- The book contains a first part of the Text, in which the sheets of the second part are described, as well as an example of Memory, Budgets and Ordinances.
- The engravings of the Laminas of the second part, lithographs in their entirety, show from the quartering of the ashlar of an arch to a view of the patio of the lions of the Alhambra of Granada, passing by plants and distributions of houses.
Parts of the Content:
- Single volume. Spanish copy.
- Cover page. Cover. Legal page, Introduction, Text 136 Pages, Index of plates, Index of the Text, 134 Plates.
Book Description:
- Sewn binding of good execution, with guillotine cuts.
- Text in single color printing in black, very well inked, with good printing, and in general well centered and with good margins.
- Lithographs in their totality outside text, printed mostly in black monochrome and in a significant part of them in three and four color inks. Illustrations, with good printing and well centered, in general have acceptable margins, although in some cases we consider them to be poor margins.
- The Text on white matte hollowed paper, of medium thickness and bad quality.
- The Illustrations on white matt hollowed paper, with several thicknesses between medium and thick, being in general of good quality.
- Hard covers of full maroon editorial fabric, and maroon leather spine with four nerves, of good quality.
- The spine is printed in gold "CARPINELL" "PRACTICAL ARCHITECTURE".
- Guards of paper printed with "small filigree" in blue, of fine thickness and low quality. The two inner pages of the guards are glued to another recovery sheet, hiding the old printing, in order to gain thickness and therefore resistance.