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First edition, 4to (280 x 215 mm), 8pp., 67 engraved places, a last few plates a little foxed, gutta-percha binding with a couple of leaves working loose, original blind-stamped cloth, spine and upper cover faded. A scarce compilation of two earlier titles originally issued by the architectural specialist publishing firm of J. Taylor and here reissued by Taylor's successor, John Weale. The first 31 plates are from of Edmund Aikin's Designs for Villas and other Rural buildings, 1808; plates 32-55 are of C. A. Busby's Series of Designs for Villas and Country Houses, 1808; and plates 56-67 (woodcuts) are original and previously unpublished, they are more recent designs for houses in Italianate or Gothic styles in Harwich, Brighton and London.…