May 19, 2005 - Sale 2044

Sale 2044 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 1,955
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HIS MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK (ARCHITECTURE.) Pugin, Augustus Welby. Contrasts; or, a Parallel Between the Noble Edifices . . . Sewing the Present Decay of Taste. Engraved frontispiece, additional title, dedication, and 16 plates. 4to, gilt-decorated green cloth, unevenly faded, contemporary rebacking in gilt-lettered green morocco; scattered moderate foxing, affecting mostly tissue guards and margins. London: Printed and published by Pugin, 1836

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scarce first edition