A Book of Architecture, Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments, by James Gibbs, London: W. Innys et al., 1739; Second edition with 150 engraved plates, including four double-page. Gibbs' works include the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, his pattern book of Georgian design became the most widely used architecture book of the century, 16 7/8" x 10 5/8".

Competitive in-house shipping is available for this lot. Calf binding with tooled and gilt spine. Two pages with margin tears, light pencil sketching on backs of some pages, pages mostly clean with some foxing, boards detatched.