£504
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
London: printed for J. Millan, 1743. 8vo (23.1 x 14.5cm), 19th-century half calf, comb-marbled sides, endpapers and edges, engraved throughout, comprising pictorial title-page, contents leaf, and 48 plates numbered 1-53 (of which 6 folding), the plates all by Paul Fourdinier after Isaac Ware from designs by Inigo Jones (24 in total), William Kent (21), Lord Burlington (1), and Ware (2), a few spots towards front [ESTC T114549; Harris 910]
Note: Second edition, presumed to follow an undated edition of c.1731-5. Scarce in commerce; ESTC traces three copies only in UK libraries.