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Langley, Batty : [THE BUILDER'S COMPLEAT ASSISTANT, or a Library of Arts and Sciences .....] Volume 2 only

Usual catalogue: Buildings and Architecture

[Richard Ware], [London], 1738, 77 plates each about 9.25 x 10 inches wide, folded vertically in the centre and mounted between double stub pages, : full calf with gilt dentelles at edges of boards, ruled and numbered in gilt at spine, the volume of plates ONLY, published to accompany the text volume of The Builder's Compleat Assistant, complete with 77 double page plates of designs by Batty Langley, including geometric figures, numerous designs for decorative cornices, mouldings, friezes, pediments, etc., colonades, pedestals, columns, pillasters, capitals and keystones, examples of flooring, scarfing joints and trussing, designs for a variety of roofs and trusses, designs for timber bridges (including for the New Westminster Bridge), construction of brick and stone arches, plans and sections for staircases, ballustrades, ornamental features, etc., includes the three plates (53-55) not present in the British Library copy, rubbed and bumped at extrems., sl. loss at. tail of spine, leather cracked through at joints (boards retained by the cords), edges and endpapers a little grubby, endpapers cracked at hinges, ink name/place front free endpaper,
Book reference no: 37982 - Price: £350.00 SOLD