James Gibbs | A Book of Architecture, London, 1728, first edition, modern half calf

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

James Gibbs

A Book of Architecture, Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments. London: [printed by William Bowyer for the author], 1728

FIRST EDITION, folio (506 x 360 mm.), 147 engraved plates (of 150), plates 1, 7, 26 and 111 are double-page, modern half calf over marbled boards, lacking 3 plates (1, 110, and 131), letterpress slightly foxed, leaves slightly browned at margins, first three leaves frayed at extremities, final plate with marginal repair,extremities rubbed

LITERATURE:

Harris 257

PROVENANCE:

"E P 1760", ownership inscription on front pastedown; Thomas Reeve, ownership inscription on front free endpaper; George Vernon, bookplate; A. Lawrence Kocher (1885-1969, American architect and architectural historian), bookplate