Henry-Russell Hitchcock
German Renaissance Architecture.
Princeton University Press, 1981. 0691039593 xxxiv/379 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's last name is written on title page. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Text appears in double columns. Dust jacket exhibits wear at extremities and is preserved in mylar cover. 
"The leading architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock offers the first comprehensive account in English of the schlösser (castles), churches, and civic and domestic buildings of the German Renaissance. His generously illustrated narrative covers the period from 1510, which marked the beginning of the Renaissance in Germany, to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War more than a century later. Implicit in his chronology is the recognition of a related series of highly productive stylistic episodes, from the Italian design reflected in the first quarter of the sixteenth century in southern Germany to late northern mannerism a century later.
Reassessing a considerable amount of published material in a variety of German sources, and conveying his own values and interpretations, Professor Hitchcock discusses many well-known Renaissance monuments, such as the Heidelberg Ottheinrïchsbau, as well as less familiar buildings. He explores the influence of Renaissance political, religious, cultural, and economic history on the architecture of the period, including the effect of the Reformation, and examines the relationship of German architectural developments to those elsewhere on the continent."