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THOMAS (WILLIAM)
Original Designs in Architecture, FIRST EDITION, for the Author 1783

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
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THOMAS (WILLIAM)

Original Designs in Architecture, FIRST EDITION, 27 engraved plates, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red gilt morocco spine label [Millard British, 84; Harris 878, "a handsome folio"], folio (532 x 365mm.), for the Author 1783

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First edition of a work in which the architect William Thomas (died 1800) "advertised his competence... [with] exemplary neo-classical designs for houses, interior features, and garden buildings" (ODNB). 176 subscribers include the architects Robert Adam, William Chambers, George Dance, S.P. Cockerell, Henry Holland, and James Stuart.

Provenance: Gladstone family, with Fasque bookplate.

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