SOANE, John (1753-1837). Sketches in Architecture... to which are added Six Designs . London: printed for J. Taylor, 1798. Major work by one of England’s greatest and most influential architects, being a continuation and expansion of Soane's earlier Plans, Elevations and Sections of Buildings (1788). This present copy is the second edition of a work first published in 1793. Soane himself described it as 'another publication on the same subject [country houses] but in a smaller scale, consisting of cottages for the laborious and the industrious part of the community and of other buildings, generally calculated for the real uses and comforts of life, and such as are within the reach of moderate fortunes' (Harris, British Architectural Books and Writers , p. 429). Abbey Life 74. 2 parts in one volume, folio (445 x 292 mm). One general title and 2 part-titles, 54 engraved plates (occasional marginal soiling, last 3 plates with bottom margin softened by damp and final plate with an associated marginal tear). Contemporary boards, uncut (rebacked and recornered in modern half calf, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Easton Neston Library (booklabel).
SOANE, John (1753-1837). Sketches in Architecture... to which are added Six Designs . London: printed for J. Taylor, 1798. Major work by one of England’s greatest and most influential architects, being a continuation and expansion of Soane's earlier Plans, Elevations and Sections of Buildings (1788). This present copy is the second edition of a work first published in 1793. Soane himself described it as 'another publication on the same subject [country houses] but in a smaller scale, consisting of cottages for the laborious and the industrious part of the community and of other buildings, generally calculated for the real uses and comforts of life, and such as are within the reach of moderate fortunes' (Harris, British Architectural Books and Writers , p. 429). Abbey Life 74. 2 parts in one volume, folio (445 x 292 mm). One general title and 2 part-titles, 54 engraved plates (occasional marginal soiling, last 3 plates with bottom margin softened by damp and final plate with an associated marginal tear). Contemporary boards, uncut (rebacked and recornered in modern half calf, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Easton Neston Library (booklabel).
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