Lot 138
Langley (Batty) The Builder's Director, or Bench-Mate..., 1792 & Builder's Jewel, 1763 & others, similar (9)
Hammer Price: £1,700
Description
Langley (Batty) The Builder's Director, or Bench-Mate: being a Pocket-Treasury...of Architecture, 184 engraved plates on 92 sheets (printed on both sides), modern bookplate of P. & L.Waterhouse, I. & J.Taylor, [c.1792] § Langley (Batty & Thomas)The Builder's Jewel: or, the Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer, tenth edition, engraved frontispiece and 99 plates, contemporary ink inscription "Thos. Morton's Book 1789" to head of title, plates 30 & 66 lacking lower portion where poorly trimmed, old pencil or ink sketches to verso of a few plates and endpapers, rather soiled, for C. & R.Ware, 1763 § Neve (Richard) The City and Country Purchaser's and Builder's Dictionary..., third edition, engraved frontispiece of Chiswick House, for B.Sprint, 1736 § Salmon (William) The London and Country Builder's Vade Mecum: Or, The Complete and Universal Estimator, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece, a little soiled and damp-stained, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, modern calf, S. Crowder and B. Collins, 1773 § Building Act (The)...shewing the proper thickness of party-walls, external-walls, and chimnies, 3 engraved plates, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, spotted, modern calf-backed boards, Cambridge, J.Archdeacon for Taylor's Architectural Library, 1791, the first three all contemporary calf or sheep, rubbed, rebacked, [Harris 430, 436, 597, 792 & 92]; and 4 others, similar, including a defective first edition of The Builder's Price-Book of 1776, 8vo (9)
Description
Langley (Batty) The Builder's Director, or Bench-Mate: being a Pocket-Treasury...of Architecture, 184 engraved plates on 92 sheets (printed on both sides), modern bookplate of P. & L.Waterhouse, I. & J.Taylor, [c.1792] § Langley (Batty & Thomas)The Builder's Jewel: or, the Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer, tenth edition, engraved frontispiece and 99 plates, contemporary ink inscription "Thos. Morton's Book 1789" to head of title, plates 30 & 66 lacking lower portion where poorly trimmed, old pencil or ink sketches to verso of a few plates and endpapers, rather soiled, for C. & R.Ware, 1763 § Neve (Richard) The City and Country Purchaser's and Builder's Dictionary..., third edition, engraved frontispiece of Chiswick House, for B.Sprint, 1736 § Salmon (William) The London and Country Builder's Vade Mecum: Or, The Complete and Universal Estimator, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece, a little soiled and damp-stained, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, modern calf, S. Crowder and B. Collins, 1773 § Building Act (The)...shewing the proper thickness of party-walls, external-walls, and chimnies, 3 engraved plates, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, spotted, modern calf-backed boards, Cambridge, J.Archdeacon for Taylor's Architectural Library, 1791, the first three all contemporary calf or sheep, rubbed, rebacked, [Harris 430, 436, 597, 792 & 92]; and 4 others, similar, including a defective first edition of The Builder's Price-Book of 1776, 8vo (9)