Architecture. New Copper Plate Magazine, Containing Select V...

Hammer

£300

Architecture. New Copper Plate Magazine, Containing Select Views of Noblemens (sic) and Gentlemens (sic) Seats in England. Taken from original Drawings, sole edition, London: Printed by J. Barker, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, for J. Edwards, Pall Mall, n.d. [1789-96], letterpress title-page and illustrated with 80 named-view engraved plates, each with tissue-guards, later finely bound in 20th c polished tan calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins and dentelles, marbled endpapers, oblong 4to 

A scarce compilation using plates from Throsby's Leicestershire and Thoroton's Nottinghamshire. The number of plates appears to vary but is approximately 80.