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229. Pain, William and James. Pain’s British Palladio: or, the Builder’s general assistant. Demonstrating in the Most easy and Practical Method, all the Principal rules of architecture From the ground Plan to the ornamental Finish. illustrated With several new and useful Designs of houses, with their Plans, elevations, and sections, … the Whole correctly engraved on Forty-two Folio copper-Plates, fron the original Designs, of William and James Pain. I. And J. Taylor, 1793.
£975
Folio (425 x 280 mm). contemporary full calf, sometime expertly rebacked and cornered, recent morocco and gilt lettering piece to the spine; pp. 4 + 16 + 42 engraved plates, including 2 double-page; closed tears to the margins or gutters of pls. xi, xiii, xxi, xxvii, xl, expertly repaired, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
First edition, fourth issue. a prolific architectural writer, William Pain’s pattern books were in print in one form or another throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. a carpenter and joiner by profession the contents of his books are almost exclusively concerned with the internal construction and details of a building. Written with his son James, the
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British Palladio differs from most of Pain’s other books in that it was issued in folio size, as opposed to the quarto and octavo size usually associated with architectural pattern books. the plates in the present volume include a small number of designs for town houses but the principal interest is in the internal planning and include examples of door- cases, fire-places, stair-cases and the arrangement of chimney flues. of particular interest are the estimates of prices for carrying out an extraordinary variety of jobs including brickwork, plastering, roofing, marbling and glazing, (pp. 9-16).
Harris/Savage 637.
230. Paris. atlas administratif Des eaux De la Ville De Paris. 1884. [Paris, Préfecture De la Seine], 1884.]
£595
elephant folio (672 x 509 mm). original quarter morocco gilt-lettered boards, worn, the corners rubbed; 1 large double-page tinted lithographed plan of Paris and 16 numbered, large, double-page tinted lithograph plans, highlighted with hand-colouring, showing individual arrondisements and the water mains running through them; light dust marks to the margins, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
231. PeiKert, martin (1901-1975). Wengen: la Patrie des Bons skieurs. original lithograph in colours, commissioned by the swiss alpine resort Wengen, c.1947.
£4,825
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