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Author: Busch, O.A. (ed)
Title: Operabyggnaden i Stockholm. Festskrift i anledning af dess invigning den 19 September 1898 utgifven af Theaterbyggnadskonsortium.
Publication: Stockholm, Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalts Förlag 1898.
Price: £380
Reference: 09402
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Folio. ix + (1) + 48pp + (2) + pp53-97 + (1)pp, (33) + 24 engraved and photo plates and plans, 2 of which double-page and 4 colour. Publisher's gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with recent morocco spine. Some offsetting from plates on facing text leaves, and slight browning at outer blank margins, but nonetheless a good copy.
A substantial monograph on Stockholm's new opera house, published for its inauguration and providing a detailed description of the recently completed neo-Baroque building by the Swedish theatre architect Axel Anderberg (1860-1937). Anderberg had a major architectural impact in Stockholm, designing the Natural History Museum, Academy of Sciences, and Observatory, as well as theatres in other parts of Sweden. He won the competetion to build the Oskarsteatern in 1888 (replacing a building of 1782 by Carl Frederik Adelcrantz, also briefly described), borrowing elements for his design from Garnier's new Opéra building in Paris, although Anderberg's design is altogether less elaborate. The plates include photographs of the interior. One copy only reported to NUC (Library of Congress).