BEIN Ruskin 849sb: Sixteen pages of advertisements at end, dated January, 1856, in addition to the two pages mentioned by Wise. Original cloth binding. Bookplate of Robert Buchanan Stewart., BEIN 2000 +191: Advertisements on [2] p. at end not noted in pagination. Bookseller's label: G.G. Walmsley, bookseller, 50, Lord Street, Liverpool. Bookseller's printed description of vol. taped to verso of front free endpaper., and "The plates ... have been ... re-etched by Mr. Cuff ... remedying the defects ... in the first edition from my careless etching ... The 9th plate ... [was] engraved by Mr. Armytage"--Author's preface to 2nd ed.
Vitruvius Britannicus, ou l'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des bâtimens reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne
Description:
The title pages are engraved in volumes 1-2, 4-5., Vol. 3 contains "The geometrical plans of the most considerable gardens and plantations.", Vols. 4 and 5 are a continuation by Woolfe and Gandon., and BAC: British Art Center copy is a large paper copy, with volumes IV & V larger than volumes I to III. All volumes are first issues with lists of subscribers and volumes IV & V with the bookplate of Edward Harbord, Lord Suffield. Bound in contemporary calf; rebacked.
Publisher:
Sold by the author over against Douglas-Coffee house in St. Martins-Lane : John Nicholson in Little Britain : Andrew Bell at the Cross-Keys in Cornhil : W. Taylor in Pater-Noster -Row : Henry Clements in St. Pauls Church-yard : and Jos. Smith in Exeter Change