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Roller les catacombes de Rome
DescriptionTheophile Roller Paris, A. Morel, 1881. 2 vols. in-folio. XXXVI, 304, 391 pp. text and hundreds of superb ills. on 100 plts. in heliogravure. Orig. half maroon morocco, marginal foxing throughout. £680 CommentaryOne of the most beautifully illustrated and extensive works on the subject of the first artistic representations of Christians. It famously inspired Le Corbusier, who bought a copy sometime between 1912 and 1916, in some of his subterranean designs. |
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