Fine Books & Manuscripts

[ARCHITECTURE]. Frank Lloyd Wright: Monograph [and] Preliminary Studies [and] In His Renderings. Edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa. Text by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984–88. 12 volumes, 4to. Illustrated in color from photographs and drawings. Publisher’s red cloth; original dust jackets; original card boxes with wraparound printed labels (evenly sunned on spine). Laid in with publisher’s prospectus. FIRST EDITION of the first complete work of Frank Lloyd Wright issued by the architect’s Foundation. From the prospectus: “Of the 12 lavish volumes, volumes 1 through 8 are monographs which comprehensively survey Wright’s known buildings and projects through photographs, drawings and text. Volumes 9 through 11 illustrate the development of Wright’s genius through preliminary studies and sketches of pivotal works. Volume 12 comprises 200 renderings which have been carefully selected to convey the essence of Wright’s drawings”. A FINE SET.