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LANGLEY (THOMAS AND BATTY) Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, by a Great Variety of Grand and Usefull Designs in the Entirley New Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, 1742 image 1
LANGLEY (THOMAS AND BATTY) Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, by a Great Variety of Grand and Usefull Designs in the Entirley New Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, 1742 image 2
LANGLEY (THOMAS AND BATTY) Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, by a Great Variety of Grand and Usefull Designs in the Entirley New Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, 1742 image 3
LANGLEY (THOMAS AND BATTY) Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, by a Great Variety of Grand and Usefull Designs in the Entirley New Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, 1742 image 4
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LANGLEY (THOMAS AND BATTY)
Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, 1742

14 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £2,000

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LANGLEY (THOMAS AND BATTY)

Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, by a Great Variety of Grand and Usefull Designs in the Entirley New Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the plea to subscribers "to pay 7s-6 on receiving this first part...") on the first title, 2 engraved titles, 64 engraved plates (numbered 1-62, and A-B, signed by one or both of the Langleys and dated 1741 or 1742), letterpress dedications, list of subscribers, and 4pp. of text, modern red half morocco gilt [Berlin Katalog 2278; Harris 409], 4to, 1742

Footnotes

RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the Langley's work, intended "to restore the Rules of the Ancient Saxon Architecture, (vulgarly, but mistakenly called Gothic) which have been lost to the public for upwards of seven hundred years" (Dedication), which instigated the Gothic Revival movement. The plates include designs for temples, pavilions, windows, doorways and chimneypieces.

Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.

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