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DARLY, Matthias (fl.1750-1778). The Ornamental Architect, or young artists instructor...The following professions cannot do without it. Architects, painters, engravers, carvers, stuco-workers, modellers, potters... London: the author, [1771].
2° (430 x 282mm). Engraved and mounted on guards throughout. Title, dedication leaf, index leaf, 99 engraved plates (numbered IV-XIII, 'XI', XV-LVIII, [LIX], LX-LXXVIII, 'LXXXVIII', LXXX-CII), all by Darly. (Browned, small repair to upper outer margin of plate L.) Contemporary marbled half calf, spine lettered in gilt.
FIRST EDITION. It was Darly's intention in the present work and his earlier New Book of Chinese Designs (1754) "to disseminate the orders and accessories of architecture to decorative artists of all kinds... and at the same time to supply architects as well as other artists with 'the graceful addition of ornament' neglected by most authors on architecture. [The work contains] some of the earliest designs published in this country for neo-classical decoration": (Harris p.176). Harris 188; Berlin Kat. 2289.
2° (430 x 282mm). Engraved and mounted on guards throughout. Title, dedication leaf, index leaf, 99 engraved plates (numbered IV-XIII, 'XI', XV-LVIII, [LIX], LX-LXXVIII, 'LXXXVIII', LXXX-CII), all by Darly. (Browned, small repair to upper outer margin of plate L.) Contemporary marbled half calf, spine lettered in gilt.
FIRST EDITION. It was Darly's intention in the present work and his earlier New Book of Chinese Designs (1754) "to disseminate the orders and accessories of architecture to decorative artists of all kinds... and at the same time to supply architects as well as other artists with 'the graceful addition of ornament' neglected by most authors on architecture. [The work contains] some of the earliest designs published in this country for neo-classical decoration": (Harris p.176). Harris 188; Berlin Kat. 2289.