Details
GIBBS, James. A Book of Architecture Containing Designs of Buildings And Ornaments. London: n.d., 1728.
2° (518 x 358mm). 3 page subscribers list, 150 engraved plates, some double-page, extra-illustrated with cut down mounted mezzotint portrait of Gibbs. Contemporary calf (worn).
FIRST EDITION. This work was enormously influential, not only architecturally in Great Britain and throughout the world (India, South Africa, the West Indies, and America where it were it profoundly influenced the architects of the White House), but also because James Gibbs was the first architect to produce independently a book of his own designs. Harris 257; Fowler p.118; Berlin Kat. 2270.
2° (518 x 358mm). 3 page subscribers list, 150 engraved plates, some double-page, extra-illustrated with cut down mounted mezzotint portrait of Gibbs. Contemporary calf (worn).
FIRST EDITION. This work was enormously influential, not only architecturally in Great Britain and throughout the world (India, South Africa, the West Indies, and America where it were it profoundly influenced the architects of the White House), but also because James Gibbs was the first architect to produce independently a book of his own designs. Harris 257; Fowler p.118; Berlin Kat. 2270.
Provenance
? Earl of Oxford (inscribed Oxford B.H.).
Probably acquired by William, 2nd Lord Bolton (1782-1850).
Listed in the 1905 Inventory of Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (1879-1954).
Thence by descent.
Probably acquired by William, 2nd Lord Bolton (1782-1850).
Listed in the 1905 Inventory of Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (1879-1954).
Thence by descent.