L13410

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Lot 20
  • 20

British Architecture and Furniture

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 20 volumes, comprising:
  • paper
Hope, T. Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. London, 1807, engraved additional title and 60 plates, modern red morocco-backed boards, spotted
Cottingham, L.N. Plans, Elevations, Sections… of the magnificent chapel of King Henry the Seventh at Westminster Abbey. London, 1822-1829, 2 vol., lithographed plates, some folding, later half cloth, some marginal spotting and tears, bindings somewhat rubbed and soiled
Palmer, C.J. The History and Illustrations of a House in the Elizabethan style of Architecture. London, 1838, presentation copy, engraved plates, contemporary red half morocco, binding slightly rubbed and soiled
Hunt, T.F. Half a Dozen Hints on Picturesque Domestic Architecture… third edition. London, 1841, 14 lithographed plates; Ibid. Designs for Parsonage Houses, Alms Houses, etc. 1841, 21 lithographed plates, together 2 vol., original morocco-backed cloth, lacking half of first spine
Burn, R.S. and others. Working Drawings & Designs in Architecture and Building. Edinburgh and London, [c.1865], 55 plates, all but one double-page, illustrations, contemporary half calf, slightly dampstained, binding somewhat rubbed and soiled
Small, J.W. Scottish Woodwork. [1878], limited to 250 copies, plates, original morocco-backed boards, somewhat rubbed
Audsley, W. & G. Polychromatic Decoration as applied to Buildings. London, 1882, 36 chromolithographed plates, original cloth, some dampstaining, binding slightly worn
Muthesius, H. Die Englische Baukunst der Gegenwart. Leipzig and Berlin, 1900, one volume bound in 2, 110 photographic plates, plans and illustrations in text, contemporary vellum-backed cloth, binding somewhat soiled
Bolton, A.T. The Architecture of Robert & James Adam. London, 1922, 2 vol., illustrations, plans, original cloth, bindings very slightly worn
Edwards, R. The Dictionary of English Furniture. London, 1954, 3 vol., coloured plates, plain illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, bindings slightly marked
Repton, H. The Red Books of Humphrey Repton. London: Basilisk Press, 1976, 4 vol., limited to 515 copies, illustrated, original red morocco-backed boards, original box

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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