Title & Author:

The Library of Congress : comprising a series of architectural and mural decorations which have attracted the greatest attention and admiration.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Copyrighted and published by Howard Grey Douglas, [ca. 1901]

Description:

[3] leaves, 25 leaves of plates : 25 col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.

Notes:
"This book is designed to properly present the most magnificent building in the world the conception of whose great beauty depends upon a faithful and artistic representation of the colors in the originals."
Contains color reproductions of photographs. The murals are by artists identified in the table of contents.
Plates 1-22 were published in 1901 under title: The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. : its principal architectural and decorative features in the colors of the originals.
The plates are mounted.

Subject:

Library of Congress.
Library architecture Washington (D.C.)
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Washington (D.C.)
Mural painting and decoration, American Washington (D.C.)
Architecture des bibliothèques Washington (D.C.)
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Washington (D.C.)
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Library architecture
Mural painting and decoration, American
Washington (D.C.)
Libraries (buildings) United States Washington (D.C.) 1870-1910.

Added entries:

Douglas, Howard Grey, 1862-1902.
Norman D. Stevens Collection of Library Architecture.

Library of Congress, Washington / by Howard Grey Douglas

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 180191
Call No.: IDM NA44.S6645.25 L5; ID:98-B637
Status: Available