Lot 26

HALFPENNY, WILLIAM AND JOHN. Rural Architecture in the Gothick Taste. Being Twenty New Designs, for Temples, Garden-Seats, Summer-Houses, Lodges, Terminies, Piers, &c. on sixteen Copper Plates, for Robert Sayer, 1752--[BARTON, Reverend CUTTS]. Modern Characters for 1778. By Shakespear, 1778, 12mo--STRANGE, ROBERT. A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard...French and Spanish Schools, 1769; all London, bound together, 8vo except as noted, contemporary calf-backed boards, edges sprinkled, rebacked in the nineteenth century, a bit rubbed, the second and third works each lacking a preliminary leaf (probably the half-titles), most plates with platemarks shaved at fore- or upper edges, small marginal stain to first 3 leaves, title and text leaves of the Halfpenny a bit foxed, some very faint spotting to the plate; unboxed. The Halfpenny with 16 engraved plates (unsigned) of neo-gothic garden houses, lodges, temples, etc. Fowler 152.

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HALFPENNY, WILLIAM AND JOHN. Rural Architecture in the Gothick Taste. Being Twenty New Designs, for Temples, Garden-Seats, Summer-Houses, Lodges, Terminies, Piers, &c. on sixteen Copper Plates, for Robert Sayer, 1752--[BARTON, Reverend CUTTS]. Modern Characters for 1778. By Shakespear, 1778, 12mo--STRANGE, ROBERT. A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard...French and Spanish Schools, 1769; all London, bound together, 8vo except as noted, contemporary calf-backed boards, edges sprinkled, rebacked in the nineteenth century, a bit rubbed, the second and third works each lacking a preliminary leaf (probably the half-titles), most plates with platemarks shaved at fore- or upper edges, small marginal stain to first 3 leaves, title and text leaves of the Halfpenny a bit foxed, some very faint spotting to the plate; unboxed. The Halfpenny with 16 engraved plates (unsigned) of neo-gothic garden houses, lodges, temples, etc. Fowler 152.

John Smyth, eighteenth-century armorial bookplate.