Details
LANGLEY, Batty. The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs: or the art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture, London: printed by J. Ilive, for Thomas Langley, 1740, 4° (288 x 228mm.), FIRST EDITION, 187 plates by Thomas Langley after Batty Langley, cancel for plate 37 bound in (plate no. 31 stained, preliminaries with small wormholes to lower margin, occasional spotting), contemporary sprinkled calf (rebacked and recornered with old lettering-piece relaid). [Berlin Katalog 2276]
Provenance
Robert Lancaster, Oxford 1745, ownership inscription, stamped initials to title and bookplate; M. E. Gaskell, ownership inscription to front endpaper.