Frank Lloyd Wright

The Prairie School Review. Published four times a year by The Prairie School Press, Illinois. Thirteen volumes bound in four editions. Each journal edition is 26 pp long, all volumes complete, uniform binding measures 11 x 8.5, 4tos. Navy cloth boards normally rubbed at edges and corners. Heads and tails of spines rubbed. Gilt lettering and ruling bright and clean. Books 1 & 2 exhibit previous ownership bookplates on front paste-downs: Maurice Robert des Marais. Binder’s tickets found on all rear paste-downs: Wert Bookbinding, Middletown PA. Fore-edges of text-blocks are lightly toned. Previous ownership ink stamps found throughout all text-blocks; mostly on last leaf of journal edition: M. Robert des Marais, A. A, Registered Architect, State College, PA. One known instances of yellow highlighter on pages 16/17 of Vol 1 No 3. Bindings tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. In 1961, Wilbert and Marilyn Hasbrouck established the Prairie School Press in Chicago to publish important but out-of-print architecture sources on or by the Prairie School architects. They issued facsimile editions of numerous titles, including Louis Sullivan’s A System of Architectural Ornament According with a Philosophy of Man’s Powers, and The House Beautiful, illustrated by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Hasbroucks’ journal, The Prairie School Review, published from 1964 to 1981, was the earliest scholarly journal to feature illustrated articles on various Prairie School projects, reviews of current publications, and preservation news. The collection includes much unpublished material: manuscripts, photographs, research notes, and correspondence with scholars regarding current research projects. It also holds the editorial and production records of The Prairie School Review. During a career of more than 40 years, Hasbrouck renovated or restored such buildings as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, one of the architect’s most opulent commissions; the Manhattan Building, a muscular 1891 skyscraper by William Le Baron Jenney; and the jewel-like Peoples Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by Louis Sullivan. But his influence extended beyond bricks and mortar. He and his wife of nearly 60 years, Marilyn Whittlesey Hasbrouck, co-edited and co-published an architectural magazine, the Prairie School Review, that championed Wright and other Midwestern architects long before their work became popular. To help support the magazine, Marilyn Hasbrouck opened what became the Prairie Avenue Bookshop, which the Financial Times once called the best architectural bookshop in the world. ALMOST a complete run! 1977 was the last year of publication. A very clean and presentable set.