Architecture. Desgodetz (Anthony, Architect) & Marshall ...

Hammer

£1,200

Architecture. Desgodetz (Anthony, Architect) & Marshall (George, Architect, engraver and translator), The Ancient Buildings of Rome: Accurately Measured and Delineated, Illustrated with One Hundred and Thirty-seven Plates; and Explanations in French and English, two-volume set, first English edition, London: [s.n.], 1771, [&] Printed for I and J. Taylor, 1795, parallel French-English title-pages and text, pp: [ii], [xx], [1]-72, bound-in 4pp Taylor's advert/catalogue ('A List of Books on the various branches of Architecture and Building'); [v], [1]-64, illustrated with 137 full-page copperplate-engraved architectural plates as called for, plates II & IV respectively of the arches of Constantine and Septimius Severus repaired; the plates for the baths of Diocletian and Paulus Emilius with damp-stained margins, mostly not affecting the elevations/plans; some sporadic toning, foxing, and a trifle off-setting in places throughout, uniformly bound in contemporary c. 1795 mottled calf over marbled boards, eight-compartment spines of raised band, gilt-lettered morocco labels in the second compartment, numbered in the fourth, edges uncut, elephant folios (57cm x 39.5cm), (2). 

Provenance: 1) Alexander Copland, (? possibly 1774-1834; the builder of Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, between 1801-1828, and for which these books might have influenced the design of); early 19th century canted spade shield armorial bookplates to each pastedown; 2) the Seymour family of Thrumpton Hall, near Nottingham.