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London: A. Bettesworth and C.Hitch; also S. Austen: 1734. First edition. Nice copy of odd volume in new cloth missing a plate. [496pp] unpaginated. With a frontis, illustrations in the text, and 14 (of 15) foldout plates. 1803 ownership name on verso of frontis, and subsequently that of his nephew, an RIBA. Contents otherwise clean and in very good order. Newly cased in brown cloth, spine gilt ruled, titled and dated with red and black lettering pieces. With the commendatory note by Hawksmoor and others, and the 8-page Preface. Takes the alphabet up to HY, with an 11-page supplement. VG+.

Price: £500.00

Roma: 1817. First edition. Each vol consists of an engraved title page followed by 60 captioned engravings printed recto, each approx 8 x 11.5 cms, on pages 15 x 22 cms. Prisons, farms, amphitheatres, dwellings are all encompassed in miniature with a neat line, and peopled to provide a human scale. Many of the pages have some foxing, affecting chiefly the wide margins, and the last 20 pages of Vol 2 have a damp stain to the bottom corner, not encroaching on the plates. Both are bound in what may be the publishers' original patterned paper, a chaotic mosaic of dots and squiggles in black and rose on yellow paper, resembling a nightmare of dismembered jigsaw pieces or a map of the firing of neurons. Both books are firm but quite knocked and scuffed along the fore-edge and corners. VG.

Price: £240.00

London: R. Miller, n.d. [1820? / 1830?] First edition. (4), 26 leaves printed recto, + 12pp adverts. Prelims consist of engraved title, a blank, an account of London, and a map. Each of the 26 engravings comprises the illustration of a building and its accompanying description. The 'catalogue of books and fancy articles' at the end is foxed, as is the title page, and there is some offsetting from the title and the map. Plates very good with some light foxing. 12mo, 5.5 x 3.6ins, in contemporary marbled boards, quite scuffed, with a recent spine in green calf, ruled and titled in gilt, quite pretty. Very Good.

Price: £140.00

Oxford: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918. First English edition. xvii, 383pp, illustrated with many plates and text illustrations. Ex-library copy: pastedown damaged from removed label, front free endpaper removed, half-title stamped 'withdrawn', and margins of some plates have a small circular stamp. Contents otherwise clean and in very good order. Large quarto, in the original navy cloth, with elaborate decoration to the boards - in gilt on the front, in blind on the back. The spine is titled in gilt, even the library number is written in gilt: pale patch towards base of spine. Clean and firm, gilt a little rubbed but bright, slight ridge to spine, ends puckered. Very Good.
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Price: £65.00

Cambridge: University Press, 1911. First edition. viii, 483pp. Nice 20thC bookplate tipped in on pastedown, which also has a few numbers in ink, and errata notes in pencil on front free endpaper. Occasional notes and emphases in the text. Contents firm and not soiled. In the original navy cloth with rounded corners, spine lettered in gilt. Binding firm and fairly clean, spine extremities fraying slightly. VG.

Price: £46.00

London: John Murray, 1987. First edition. 348pp, with many succinctly subtitled illustrations. Contents very fresh, clean and unmarked, may be unread. Quarto, in the original light fawn weave cloth, spine titled in gilt on maroon lettering-piece, all very fresh, bright and sharp, with very slight blunting to base of spine. In protected unclipped dustjacket, very bright and clean, with tiny scuffs at upper corners. Very Near Fine in ditto jacket. Beautiful copy of the first printing of a key work.
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Price: £25.00