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Lot 24

Sale 5180 - Books and Manuscripts
Jul 25, 2023 7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Architecture] Papworth, John Buonarotti Group of 2 First Editions

Rural Residences, Consisting of a Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and Other Ornamental Buildings...
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1818. First edition. 4to. 106, (4) pp. Illustrated with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 26 hand-colored aquatints. Full olive cloth-covered boards, black cloth spine label, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; contemporary ownership signature on first front blank; second front blank sprung, edges worn; "Boston Architectural Club" ink stamp on verso of frontispiece, head of title-page, verso of plates VI, XIII, XVIII, and top of p. 39; light to moderate foxing and soiling to text; foxing and soiling to most plates, offsetting from same onto text. Abbey, Life 45; Tooley 359

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Hints on Ornamental Gardening: Consisting of a Series of Designs for Garden Buildings, Useful and Decorative Gates, Fences, Railings, &c...
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1823. First edition. 4to. 110, (2) pp. Illustrated with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 27 hand-colored aquatints (second plate printed in sepia with overslip), and numerous in-text woodcuts. Quarter black niger over grey paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; contemporary ownership signature at top of title-page, old ownership signatures at top of front blank and half-title; scattered light spotting to text; light to moderate soiling in margins of most plates. Abbey, Life 46

"A necessary companion volume to the author's Rural Residences and of greater rarity." (Abbey).

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