Architecture.- Papworth (John Buonarotti) Hints on Ornamental Gardening: consisting of a series of Designs for Garden Buildings, first edition, lacking half-title, with 2 hand-coloured aquatint plans and 27 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, a few illustrations and diagrams, occasional spotting or soiling to plates, light offsetting, broken, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, [Abbey, Life 46; Berlin Kat. 3436], 4to, R.Ackermann, 1823. ⁂ The fine aquatint plates include an aviary, dairy, ice house, laundry, poultry house, Venetian tent, a bath and an apiary. The two plans show a before and after plan of an estate, one usually forming an overslip to the other, and printed in sepia and uncoloured.
Architecture.- Papworth (John Buonarotti) Hints on Ornamental Gardening: consisting of a series of Designs for Garden Buildings, first edition, lacking half-title, with 2 hand-coloured aquatint plans and 27 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, a few illustrations and diagrams, occasional spotting or soiling to plates, light offsetting, broken, modern vellum-backed marbled boards, [Abbey, Life 46; Berlin Kat. 3436], 4to, R.Ackermann, 1823. ⁂ The fine aquatint plates include an aviary, dairy, ice house, laundry, poultry house, Venetian tent, a bath and an apiary. The two plans show a before and after plan of an estate, one usually forming an overslip to the other, and printed in sepia and uncoloured.
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