(ARCHITECTURE) Gibbs James A Book of Architecture Containing

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(ARCHITECTURE.) Gibbs, James. A Book of Architecture, Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments. 150 engraved plates, 4 of which are folding. Folio, contemporary calf, heavily worn, with front cover loose; internally very good with only scattered minor foxing and toning, a few unobtrusive owner's pencil marks. Second Edition. London: W. Innys and R. Manby; P. Knapton; C. Hitch, 1739

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The second edition of the famous folio of his building designs both executed and not, as well as numerous designs for ornaments. It was intended to be a pattern book for both architects and clients, and became "probably the most widely-used architecture book of the century, not only throughout Britain, but in the American colonies and the West Indies"--Summerson, John, Architecture in the United Kingdom, 1530-1830. 9th edition. Yale University Press, 1993. This edition was published before the creation of Radcliffe Camera at Oxford University, his last and among his most famous works. Fowler 138 (first edition).