Author: LANGLEY, BATTY
Title: The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs. : Or the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture. Illustrated with Upwards of Four Hundred Grand Designs, Neatly Engraved on One Hundred and Eighty-Six Copper Plates.
Description: London, Printed for and sold by S. Harding. 1745, Second Edition. Calf, 290mm. x 240mm. Book, 22 pages (lacking pp. 17/18), 200 plates. engraved by Thomas Langley, dated 1738/9 & 1741. Brown calf, with 5 raised bands to spine, blind tooled decoration to boards, gilt titling to spine, later endpapers.Some bumping, wear to covers, split to spine at head, blind stamp of Derek Gair-Gibson to front endpaper, a previous owner has bound in copies of the title page and prelims.(4 leaves), but copied the first edition details. small tears to some plates, pp 1-4 repaired, as are supplementary plates 11-14, some marginalia, general age toning to pages. This is the scarce second edition with additional 14 plates, not found in the first edition of 1740 (Colvin 354/355). [790]. Very Good.

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