Accession number
PML 196199-00
Creator
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714.
Published
London : Printed and sold by Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, near Paternoster-Row, 1732.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2015.
Notes
Vol. 1: [8], v, [1], 143, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [6], 181 leaves of plates.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in v. 1.
With frontispiece plate, added engraved and illustrated t.p., and 4 calligraphic dedication pages addressed to the London Masons, Bricklayers, Joyners, and Carpenters Guilds, designed by Sturt, at head of v. 2.
Added engraved and illustrated t.p. in v. 2 reads: A treatise of architecture, with remarks and observations. By that excellent master thereof Sebastian Le Clerc ... Engraven in CLXXXI. copper plates by John Sturt. Translated by Mr. Chambers.
Publisher's advertisements (3 p.) at end of v. 1.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in v. 1.
With frontispiece plate, added engraved and illustrated t.p., and 4 calligraphic dedication pages addressed to the London Masons, Bricklayers, Joyners, and Carpenters Guilds, designed by Sturt, at head of v. 2.
Added engraved and illustrated t.p. in v. 2 reads: A treatise of architecture, with remarks and observations. By that excellent master thereof Sebastian Le Clerc ... Engraven in CLXXXI. copper plates by John Sturt. Translated by Mr. Chambers.
Publisher's advertisements (3 p.) at end of v. 1.
Description
2 v. : ill. (engraving), port., plans ; 22 cm
Provenance
Armorial bookplates of Philip Puleston (1742-1776) and Bryan Cooke (1756-1821).
Binding
Brown calf.
Classification
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