The Carpenter S Treasure A Collection Of Designs For Temples With Their Plans Gates Doors Rails And

by N Wallis

$2,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

16 engraved plates. Title leaf. 8vo, orig. blue wrappers bound in later cloth-backed marbled boards, uncut. London: Printed for I. & J. Taylor, n.d. but early 1790s . First edition, later issue. Wallis fl. 1771-73 , who described himself as an architect, is known only as the author of three pattern-books. When the present book was first issued, it was accompanied by one leaf of Taylor ads. As copies were sold off over a period of many years, a new

• Binding: Wrappers

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