Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Buildings Public and Private, Executed in Various Parts of England, etc., including The New Custom-House, London with Plans, Details, and Descriptions, Engraved on Fifty-Nine Plates

Laing, David

Edité par J Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holburn, London, 1818

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Double Elephant Folio. Title page, plus List of Subscribers (4 pages; headed by The King and The Queen), 14-page introduction (pp. I-XIV). Dedication page. (Dedicated to 'His Royal Highness, George, Prince of Wales, etc, etc, etc, Regent of the United Kingdom: A Generous Patron of the Fine Arts, and Protector of the Liberal and Useful Sciences'.) Pages 1-14 Description of the New Custom-House; pages 15-30 Explanation of the Plates. Forty-six plates including 12 double-page plates. Part the Second, consisting of Private and Miscellaneous Designs, pp. 31-34; The Rebuilding of the Church of St Dunstan in the East, pp. 35-42; Cursory Hints on Planting, Aspect, Soil, Dry Rot, etc., pp.43-44. Printed by Bensley and Sons, Fleet-Street. Cloth spine, bumped at ends. Buff-covered papered boards with pastedown title on front board. One gathering coming away from block. Foxing and some soiling, and rippling to some pages. Closed tear pp. 37/38, tape repair pp. 41/42. Board corners a little bumped. Stain to some top and fore-edge of pages. A scarce, impressive tome in apparent original binding. This very large book may require a freight adjustment.

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• Titre: Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Buildings Public and Private, Executed in Various Parts of England, etc., including The New Custom-House, London with Plans, Details, and Descriptions, Engraved on Fifty-Nine Plates
• Éditeur: J Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holburn, London
• Date de parution: 1818
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Good to Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket