324 - [COLLECTIVE].

[COLLECTIVE]. Modern and Economical Buildings with Plans, Sections, Elevations, and Details. By various architects. Paris, Monrocq fr. Editeurs, 1890. 4 in-4 volumes, with a label from “Librairie de la Construction moderne Aulanier et Cie, Paris” pasted to the bottom of each cover. In the publisher’s red half-cloth slipcases with laces; covers printed in red and black (covers and spine faded and rubbed, but interior fresh). Description: A rare collection of modern and economical construction plans, featuring scale drawings and plans as well as lithographic illustrations, some of which are in color. Designed by various contemporary architects in the late 19th century. The volumes feature plans for buildings and dwellings, such as a small single-story house, a worker’s house with a workshop, a small hotel-restaurant, a residential house with a study, a town hall, stables, a shed with an attic, cottages, a farm building, a detached house, boarding schools… With precise technical drawings, the plates also document the construction costs of these buildings and their financial profitability. Each volume is illustrated with 4 plates per plan; there are 100 plans in total, distributed across the 4 volumes at 25 per volume. A fine copy.