WARE, Richard (d. 1766). A Complete Body of Architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations from original designs. London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton; J. Hodges; L. Davis; J. Ward; R. Baldwin, 1756.
WARE, Richard (d. 1766). A Complete Body of Architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations from original designs. London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton; J. Hodges; L. Davis; J. Ward; R. Baldwin, 1756. 2° (398 x 254mm.) Engraved frontispiece by H. Roberts after S. Wale, title in red and black with engraved vignette of the Pantheon by H. Roberts, engraved headpiece, 114 etched and engraved plates, including 14 folding, With an additional plate 13. (Title and frontispiece lightly soiled, R2 with small hole affecting one or two letters, plate 37 with long clean tear into image, some spotting and browning throughout.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, slightly worn). Provenance : Jasper More (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE OF THE PLATES, with the vignette of the Pantheon on title and plate numbers within the plate-line, also with plates 70/71 reading "Warwick Shire." Neither Fowler nor RNLI call for a bis plate13. The two plates show reverse views of the same building elevation, one signed 'I. Ware sculp.,' the other 'Darly & Edwds fec'. Stretching to 748 pages, Ware's Complete Body provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of Georgian architecture. The preface declares his ambition 'to lay down in one body the whole science of architecture, from its first rudiments to its utmost perfection; and that in a manner which shall render every part of it intelligible to every reader' (p. [vii]). Berlin Kat. 2283; ESTC T31029; Fowler 436; RNLI 3581.
WARE, Richard (d. 1766). A Complete Body of Architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations from original designs. London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton; J. Hodges; L. Davis; J. Ward; R. Baldwin, 1756.
WARE, Richard (d. 1766). A Complete Body of Architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations from original designs. London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton; J. Hodges; L. Davis; J. Ward; R. Baldwin, 1756. 2° (398 x 254mm.) Engraved frontispiece by H. Roberts after S. Wale, title in red and black with engraved vignette of the Pantheon by H. Roberts, engraved headpiece, 114 etched and engraved plates, including 14 folding, With an additional plate 13. (Title and frontispiece lightly soiled, R2 with small hole affecting one or two letters, plate 37 with long clean tear into image, some spotting and browning throughout.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, slightly worn). Provenance : Jasper More (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE OF THE PLATES, with the vignette of the Pantheon on title and plate numbers within the plate-line, also with plates 70/71 reading "Warwick Shire." Neither Fowler nor RNLI call for a bis plate13. The two plates show reverse views of the same building elevation, one signed 'I. Ware sculp.,' the other 'Darly & Edwds fec'. Stretching to 748 pages, Ware's Complete Body provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of Georgian architecture. The preface declares his ambition 'to lay down in one body the whole science of architecture, from its first rudiments to its utmost perfection; and that in a manner which shall render every part of it intelligible to every reader' (p. [vii]). Berlin Kat. 2283; ESTC T31029; Fowler 436; RNLI 3581.
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