Luis Cervera Vera
El monasterio de San Blas en la Villa de Lerma.
Valencia: Editorial Castalia, 1969. Estudios de urbanismo, arquitectura y otras artes. Number 125 of a limited edition of 500. 160 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.25", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and pictorial design depicting the capital of a column in gold. Book shows very light shelfwear, with very mild bumping visible at midsection of fore edges. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Work is lavishly illustrated with forty -five plates, several being a number of large fold-outs, including a color map of Lerma, plus twenty-three text figures, most are plans to scale. This edition contains a glossary and name, geographic, picture and general indices. Dust jacket, with flaps, displays (small) closed tears and chipping at edges. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
Architectural study of an early 17th-century monastery built to house a community of Dominican nuns, whose religious life continues to this day. The complex is at the heart of the municipality of Lerma in the Spanish province of Burgos and its construction was undertaken by Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas (1553-1625), the Margrave of Denia and Duke (duque) of Lerma, as part of the expansion of the medieval town of Lerma into a representative ducal seat. Construction was completed in 1613–1617; the church and convent building are considered important representatives of the late Herrera style.