Lot 51
Campbell, Colen
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
£3,250
Description
Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British architect... [London, 1722 or 1725?]-1731. Volumes 1-3 (of 5), folio, 298 (of 300) plates on 243 sheets (pagination counts engraved titles and dedication as plates and counts double plates as two singles), volume 3 title-page in red and black but lacks 2 plates, [ESTC for volumes 1-2 possibly: T469352, listing 1 copy in the British Isles and 3 elsewhere; ESTC for volume 3: N56037]; uniform calf gilt, bookplates including bookplate in volume 1 of John Day [at] Lincoln's Inn, occasional slight darkening/foxing in volume 1, joints weak, rubbed (3)