1883 Saint John de Crèvecœur: Sa Vie - OWNED by Designer Ogden Codman Jr.

Description: Robert de Crèvecœur Sa Vie et ses Ouvrages (1735-1813). Avec les Portraits de Crèvecœur et de la Comtesse d'Houdetot. Gravés d'après des miniatures du temps. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1883, dark blue half-leather marbled boards, 435 pp, 9 x 6", 8vo. In fair condition. Ex-library: American Library in Paris 1920. Marbled boards are scuffed at edges and bumped/worn at corners. Top edge painted red. Head and tail of leather spine rubbed. Sticker residue present to tail of spine. Red leather title label on spine bright, gilt lettering clean. Leather spine and front board are detached from binding - but can be repaired. Ex-libris plate on front paste-down: Ogden Codman. Ex-library plate on front end-page, several black ink library stamps throughout text-block. Original paper front cover is included in modern binding. Front gutter split at half-title page, cording exposed. Moderate foxing throughout text-block, especially around plates. Water dampness stain to top edge. No known marginalia. Binding is intact, but decorate boards and leather spine are almost detached. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur (1735-1813), naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American author, diplomat, and farmer. Ogden Codman Jr. (1863-1951) was an American architect and interior decorator in the Beaux-ARts styles, and co-author with Edith Wharton of The Decoration of Houses (1897), which became a standard in American interior design. Codman spent much of his youth from 1875 to 1884 at Dinard, an American resort colony in France, and on returning to America in 1884, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Codman viewed interior design as a "branch of architecture". Edith Wharton subsequently introduced Codman to Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who hired Codman in 1894 to design the second and third floor room to his Newport summer home, The Breakers, which he did in a clean 18th-century French and Italian classical style. In 1907, Codman built what was later to be known as the Codman-Davis House in Washington, D.C. for his cousin Martha Codman Karolik. It is currently the official residence of the Ambassador of Thailand, and one of the few intact homes he designed. Codman also designed the Codman Carriage House and Stable, located a few block south. His New York clients include John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Frederick William Vanderbilt. Codman was married to Leila Griswold Webb (1856-1910), the widow of railroad magnate H. Walter Webb and the mother of New York State Senator J. Griswold Webb. FORN-MSB-0923-0744-HK620

Price: 175 USD

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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