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Second edition. Plate Table without page numbers for the plates and subtitled "with the Places of such of them as have been executed"; engraved frontispiece and 55 of 114 plates are present, as listed below. Text is collated, complete. Elephant folio, leather binding. Boards are detached, spine is splitting at center, but is still in tact. Leather label is whole, but affected. Text is in good condition, with uneven paper quality and minor stain at top of first 50 pages. Title page has been professionally repaired; red and black print, some broken type. Endpapers are chipped. Else text is in very good condition. Our best plate inventory as follows: Plate 1. missing; Plate 2. The five orders of architecture; Plate 3-4 missing; Plate 5. Kiln for burning tile and brick; Plate 6. The same; Plate 7. Lime Kiln; Plate 8. Plan and Elevation shewing the use of chain ars and iron cramps; Plate 9. Designs for iron railing; Plate 10. The same; Plate 11. Methods of planking and piling foundations; Plate 14. Shews how plates laid on walls ar put together and how their beams are formed.; Plate 15. Truss roofs; Plate 16. Truss roofs, with the manner of mortice and tenons; Plate 17 - 29 missing; Plate 30. [mislabeled: Part of a building of A. Palladio, buit at Vicenza]; Plate 30-31. FOLDOUT Plan of Sewers and Drains (misnumbered 29-30 in table); Plate 32. Design for a house whole front 66 feet.; Plate 33. Design for building, whose front is equal to twice its depth; Plate 34. Design of a house 24 feet in front, shewing the propriety of placing the entrance-door in the middle; Plate 35. Design of a building whose plan is near to a square.; Plate 37 [sic.] An Ancient Aegyptian Banqueting Room before the Invention of the Orders; Plate 37. Plan of an ancient Aegyptian Banqueting Room; Plate 37. [sic] Design for a Patronage House at Rookby-park .the seat of Sir. Thomas Robinson, Baronet, designed by himself and engraved by Foudrinier; Plate 36. [sic] .Small Farm at Biggleswade, at Calcot (also engraved by Foudrinier) [this plate is listed out of order in the table, after plate 39, which is situated, after 40 and 41]Design for a Garden Pavilion with a Portico; Plate 40 [follows plate 41, both have closed tear at bottom of plate] Elevation of a House built on Clinton Hill, near Bristol, the seat of Pau Fisher, Esq.; Plate 41 [mislabled 39 in table?] Plan and 45, The eleation of a house built at New Milns in Scotland, the seat of Francis Charteris, Esq; NOTE: Plates 39-42 are difficult to parse and no plates are listed for 43-46. Plate 42. [labeled in table] Plan, with no. 49, the elevation of a design for a person of distinction in the county of York; Plate 48. Plans of the Town Hall at Oxford; Plate 50. A Plan for the Building proposed as a Mansion House; Plate 52.Plan and Elevation (for ?); Plate 60-61 Plan and elevation of Chsterfield-house, Mayfair; Plate 74. A Ceiling for a Staircase; Plate 75.Another; Plate 76. Celing to a dining-room, lord Cornwallis's; Plate 77. A ceiling; Plate 78-79 FOLDING PLATE Dining room ceiling at Sir. Mark Pleydell's; Plate 80. A Ceiling of Indigo Jones; Plate 81-82 FOLDING PLATE Ceiling to the musick room, Chsterfield Huose; Plate 82-83 FOLDING PLATE Bedchamber ceiling at same place; Plate 82-83. [sic] FOLDING PLATE Library Ceiling, Chesterfield House; NOTE: Table of Plates lists plates 62-83 that are in addition to the folding plates noted, and are not present, mostly doors and more ceilings; NOTE: Plates 84 to 96 Chimney pieces, are not present and there is no plate 97 noted in the table; Plate 98. Piers of Indigo Jones at Cotteshill; Plate 99. Piers designed for the Right Hon. the Earl of Chesterfield (at Chapter titled "The Propriety of Piers"; Plate 106. Design for a Timber Bridge; Plate 107 Stone bridge, the Hon. Sir William Stanhope's, Ethrupe; Plate 1110-111. FOLDING PLATE Stone bridge for the Right Hon.the Earl of Kildare, Dublin; Plate 110-111 [sic] DOUBLE FOLDING PLATE A Design Intended for Westminster Brid.
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