Item #42543 Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions. In Many Grand Designs of Columns, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, Arcades, Colonnades, Porticos, Umbrellos, Temples, and Pavilions &c. with Plans, Elevations and Profiles, Geometrically Explained. B. LANGLEY, T.
Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions. In Many Grand Designs of Columns, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, Arcades, Colonnades, Porticos, Umbrellos, Temples, and Pavilions &c. with Plans, Elevations and Profiles, Geometrically Explained.

Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions. In Many Grand Designs of Columns, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, Arcades, Colonnades, Porticos, Umbrellos, Temples, and Pavilions &c. with Plans, Elevations and Profiles, Geometrically Explained.

London: Printed for John Millan, 1747. Second edition. 4to. (ii) pp. Contemporary full tan calf, rebacked with a close matching leather, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, later owner's small book label to the front and rear pastedowns. 64 finely engraved plates. Small wormhole track affecting the rear pastedown and margin of final three plates, light wear to the boards, else very good. First published in 1742 under the title "Ancient Architecture, Restored and Improved", this edition is more or less identical with the same plates reused. Item #42543

Price: £2,500.00

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