May 19, 2005 - Sale 2044

Sale 2044 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 2,990
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(ARCHITECTURE.) Overton, Thomas Collins. Original Designs of Temples and Other Ornamental Buildings for Parks and Gardens in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic Taste. 50 engraved plates by R. Pranker after Overton, one folding. 8vo, contemporary calf, early rebacking in calf gilt with burgundy lettering pieces, Subscriber's List soiled, plates 34 and 43 switched. Bound with: WRIGHTE, WILLIAM. Grotesque Architecture, or, Rural Amusement. Engraved frontispiece by Isaac Taylor after A. Thornwaite and 28 engraved plates. Several pages browned, last 4 plates with small marginal worm hole at top corner. Harris 609; 952. Berlin 2292; 3420. London: for Henry Webley, 1766; 1767