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Quarto. Seven volumes. I: [viii], xxv, 348pp,; II: viii, 430, [ii]pp.; III: xxxiv, 448pp.; IV: xx, 418, [i]pp.; V: xxxvi, [ii], 348pp.; VI: xx, 414, [i]pp.; VII: [iv], xxviii, 336pp. I: []4, a4-c4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Xx4, Yy42; II: []1, a4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Hhh4; III: a4-d4, e2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Kkk4; IV: a4-b4, c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4, Ggg2; V: a4-c4, d2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Vv4, Xx2; VI: a4-b4, c2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Fff4 (Fff4 blank); VII: [ ] 2, a4-c4, d2, A4-Tt4. Contemporry mottled calf, repaired. Illustrated. I: frontispiece & 107 plates; II: frontispiece & 128 plates (126 in the count, but there are 3 plates for 58); III: frontispiece & 121 plates; IV: frontispiece & 125 plates; V: frontispiece, title-page vignette by Le Fevre & 120 plates: VI: frontispiece & 130 plates; VII: frontispiece portrait drawn and engraved by Littret before 'Eloge' & 97 plates. Cohen-de Ricci, 211-212; Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, pp. 99-100; Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 254. From the library of the Reverend Edward Orlebar Smith, with his armorial bookplate. The Reverend Edward Orlebar Smith was Rector of the Parish Church of St. Mary, Bletchley in 1790, also Rector of Bradenham (which he vacated for this living) and Hulcot, with Salford, Bedfordshire. Seller Inventory # 1945
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