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Two hardcover books titled Daniel H. Burnham by Charles Moore, with dark green covers and ornate gold designs featuring columns and laurel wreaths, are placed side by side on a light surface.An illustrated map showing the city layout of Chicago, including Grant Park, the harbor, breakwaters, and parkland along the Lake Michigan shoreline. The map is drawn in pale green and blue tones with detailed street and park features.A soft, pastel-colored illustration of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., surrounded by trees and greenery, with a large reflecting pool in the foreground.The image shows the cover of a book titled Daniel H Burnham by Charles Moore. The cover is dark green with an ornate gold illustration of a classical architectural frame around the title.
Two hardcover books titled Daniel H. Burnham by Charles Moore, with dark green covers and ornate gold designs featuring columns and laurel wreaths, are placed side by side on a light surface.An illustrated map showing the city layout of Chicago, including Grant Park, the harbor, breakwaters, and parkland along the Lake Michigan shoreline. The map is drawn in pale green and blue tones with detailed street and park features.A soft, pastel-colored illustration of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., surrounded by trees and greenery, with a large reflecting pool in the foreground.The image shows the cover of a book titled Daniel H Burnham by Charles Moore. The cover is dark green with an ornate gold illustration of a classical architectural frame around the title.
Book (Antique/Collector's): Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities by Charles Moore
Ended at: 1181 days 21 hours 42 minutes 59 seconds ago
$90.00 USD

This auction has been sold to John Tillotson at $90.00 USD.
This rare and valuable two-volume edition of Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities was published in 1921 by historian Charles Moore. Volume 1 is 260 pages and Volume II  is 238 pages including index. The books tell the story of the life and career of one of the premier architects of the end of the nineteenth century who helped organize the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, bw illustrations

Green cloth with architectural ornaments in gilt on the upper covers, t.e.g. Exceptionally nice copies in protective jackets. Books with just trifling rubbing to edges, front panel of Vol. II dust jacket toned. Slipcase perished. Item #22596

Burnham (1846-1912) was a major Chicago architect and planner – and the chief architect for the World’s Columbian Exposition, as well as many iconic buildings.

Slipcase blurb says: “Mr. Burnham was the Director of Works at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, where he formed friendships with Theodore Thomas, Charles F. McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Frank Millet, which continued through their lives. In 1901 he was associated with McKim, Saint-Gaudens, and Frederick Law Olmsted in preparing the new plans for Washington, which are now being carried out. Then came plans for West Point, Cleveland, San Francisco, Manila, Baguio, and Chicago. He was deeply interested in the American Academy in Rome and took part in raising its endowment. Among his buildings are the railway stations in Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago and New Orleans: office buildings in every city from Boston to San Francisco, and from Chicago to New Orleans. Finally he was Chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts until his death in 1912. Mr. Burnham established the principles of city-planning in this country and laid foundations on which cities are being constructed and reconstructed; and the story of his life has to do even more with the future than with the past.”