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SOANE (JOHN) Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS FAULKNER, Printed by James Moyes [for Private Circulation], 1832 image 1
SOANE (JOHN) Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS FAULKNER, Printed by James Moyes [for Private Circulation], 1832 image 2
SOANE (JOHN) Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS FAULKNER, Printed by James Moyes [for Private Circulation], 1832 image 3
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SOANE (JOHN)
Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS FAULKNER, Printed by James Moyes [for Private Circulation], 1832

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SOANE (JOHN)

Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS FAULKNER, inscribed "Received this book from Sir John Soane, July 14th 1834. Thos. Faulkner" on front free endpaper, half-title, 18 lithographed and engraved plates, with 6 additional plates (including hand-coloured frontispiece), 14 mounted back to back as issued, 2 wood-engraved illustrations on leaf of introduction, some spotting, contemporary boards, rebacked and sides papered in marbled paper (worn with a few losses to paper), 4to (320 x 245mm.), Printed by James Moyes [for Private Circulation], 1832

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A COPY GIVEN BY JOHN SOANE TO THOMAS FAULKNER, BOOKSELLER AND AUTHOR OF BOOKS ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF LONDON, of Soane's description of his celebrated house-cum-museum. First privately published in 1830, Soane had further copies printed by James Moyes in 1832, which were, as described on the John Soane's Museum Collection Online website, issued in a variety of slightly differing forms. This copy is one of the "grangerized copies [which] have the misnumbered plate 14 corrected to 13 in manuscript, and may be regarded as a step towards the much larger 1835/36... these copies lack a frontispiece but have the hand-coloured aquatint of the Britton's Union bound to face the title-page".

Provenance: Thomas Faulkner (1777-1855).

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