Architecture & Gardens

10 volumes; 4to (28.5 x 23 cm); illustrated throughout with monochrome plates (including some full page), plans and drawings, occasional minor spotting; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt spine and front cover title, top edge gilt, minor rubbing. A very good set.

8 volumes (comprising Thornbury vols I-VI, and Walford vols I-II), 8vo (26 x 20 cm), numerous illustrations including a folding facsimile map of London (marginal tear approx. 10 cm), occasional spotting; indigo cloth backed in green morocco, gilt spine in sections. A very good set.

First edition, signed by the author, one of 550 copies signed ; 3 vols, 4to (29 x 24 cm); over 500 illustrations, including plates (some mounted, some colour), a folding map (a facsimile of Rocque's 1744 Survey of London), plans, and textual figures, titled tissue guards, light spotting to endpapers, leaves slightly toned; publisher's blue cloth, armorial device and gilt stamped ornamental border to front covers, gilt lettering to spines, all edges gilt, rubbing to spine ends and corners. An excellent set.

First edition, 4to (25.5 x 19.5 cm); frontispiece and numerous plates and woodcut illustrations throughout; red cloth with gilt title and decoration to front cover and spine. A very good copy.

First edition, 3 vols; 8vo (25 x 16 cm); armorial bookplate to front pastedown of each volume; contemporary green cloth bindings, gilt spines, light spotting. A very good set.

4 vols bound uniformly, comprising Knight vols I-VI (bound in 3) and Timbs; 4to (26.5 x 18.5 cm); illustrated throughout with woodcuts and full page engravings, minor spotting to endpapers; bound in half blue calf, contrasting red and dark green morocco lettering-pieces, gilt spine with raised-banding (slightly faded), blue cloth boards, marbled edges, a handsome set.

First edition, large folding wood engraved panorama (14 x 670.5 cm), light spotting, sectional division at Trafalgar Square repaired with tape to verso, title pasted inside upper cover; purple cloth, gilt decoration in blind, upper hinge split, a little worn.

Second edition, 4to (28.5 x 22 cm); engraved title pages, 164 engraved plates including plans and views of the city (lacking map); light spotting, maroon half morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments, minor rubbing to spine and corners; vi, 172, iipp.

Two volumes bound as one, folio, (51 x 39 cm); 26 full page colour plates by offset lithography from the 1842 originals, very occasional spotting to margins; near contemporary rich full red morocco with gilt spine (slight fading), borders and edges, slipcase with minor wear, marbled endpapers. A fine example.

First edition; 4 vols, 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), 56 plates including an engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map of London (open 38 x 72 cm), and 54 other engraved portraits, views and plans (complete according to the index supplied in vol. 4); some light spotting to endpapers and plates; modern half calf with marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments; [4], [2]ads, [2], 560, [4]; [4], 557, [1]; [4], 536, [2]; [2], 544, xlvi pp. A very good set.