Architecture.- Kirby (John Joshua) The Perspective of Architecture, 2 vol., first edition, engraved frontispiece after William Hogarth, engraved dedication leaf and head- & tail-pieces, vol. 2 with title and 98 engraved plates, vol. 2 with some very light damp-staining to lower-margin, occasional light soiling and some scattered spotting, light browning and offsetting, ex-Royal College of Art Library with bookplate/labels to endpapers and embossed stamp to foot of vol. 2 title, contemporary calf, rebacked, library sticker or reference to foot of spines, worn, covers detached, [ESTC T133638; Harris 397], folio, Printed for the Author...By R. Francklin, 1761.

⁂ Quite scarce at auction. Sponsored by George III, to whom the work is dedicated. The plates are sometimes bound separate to the text, as here, but not always with the letterpress title to vol. 2 present here.