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L[ANGLEY], B[atty] (1696-1751). The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs. London: S. Harding, 1750. 4° (280 x 222mm). 200 engraved plates by and after Batty and Thomas Langley. (Edge of title-page lightly browned.) Contemporary speckled calf, gilt ruled, morocco label to spine, red speckled edges (upper joint split but firm, extremities rubbed). Provenance: E.M. Small (ownership inscription).
'A PIONEER OF THE ROCOCO... A CHAMPION OF ENGLISH CRAFTSMEN, AND, ABOVE, ALL AN AVID FREEMASON' (Harris). The third edition, reprinted from the second (1745) including the 14 plates not found in the first. Harris 451; RIBA 1744.
'A PIONEER OF THE ROCOCO... A CHAMPION OF ENGLISH CRAFTSMEN, AND, ABOVE, ALL AN AVID FREEMASON' (Harris). The third edition, reprinted from the second (1745) including the 14 plates not found in the first. Harris 451; RIBA 1744.