COLEN CAMPBELL: "Vitruvius Britannicas" or "The British Arc...

Hammer

£12,000

COLEN CAMPBELL: "Vitruvius Britannicas"

or "The British Architect containing the Plans, Elevations and Sections of the Regular Buildings both Publick and Private in Great Britain"with a variety of new designs in 200 large folio plates, 3 volumes, full calf with gilt tooling; and two additional volumes by Woolfe & Gandon Architects published 1767, full calf with gilt tooling, the inner boards marbled within a gilt-tooled spiraling border and with marbled end papers, 55.5cm x 38cm

Provenance: Inscribed "HH", for Hubert Hutchings, "The Gift of the 3rd Duke of Leinster, 1873", and formerly in the library of Lord Selsey at West Dean, Sussex.