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PENNETHORNE, John (1808-1888). The Geometry and Optics of Ancient Architecture, illustrated by Examples from Thebes, Athens, and Rome. London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1878.
2o (570 x 380 mm). 55 lithographed plates (12 double-page and 10 colored). Contemporary half morocco (light wear to spine ends and joints).
FIRST EDITION. John Pennethorne studied architecture and worked in the office of John Nash in London. In the 1830 he went on a grand tour and studied buildings in Europe and Egypt, visiting Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Rome, Sicily, Athens, and Thebes. "He came to the conclusion that there was no foundation in fact for the conventional belief that the system of design in Greek architecture was absolutely rectilinear. The same conclusion had already been reached by Josef Hoffer... published in C. F. L. Förster's Allgemeine Bauzeitung in 1838." Blackmer 1280.
2o (570 x 380 mm). 55 lithographed plates (12 double-page and 10 colored). Contemporary half morocco (light wear to spine ends and joints).
FIRST EDITION. John Pennethorne studied architecture and worked in the office of John Nash in London. In the 1830 he went on a grand tour and studied buildings in Europe and Egypt, visiting Paris, Milan, Florence, Venice, Rome, Sicily, Athens, and Thebes. "He came to the conclusion that there was no foundation in fact for the conventional belief that the system of design in Greek architecture was absolutely rectilinear. The same conclusion had already been reached by Josef Hoffer... published in C. F. L. Förster's Allgemeine Bauzeitung in 1838." Blackmer 1280.