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DUGDALE (WILLIAM) The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, FIRST EDITION, GIFTED BY BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR TO JAMES STALKER, engraved frontispiece portrait, title printed in red and black, engraved plates (some folding, lacks 4 plates and 12 leaves of text supplied in manuscript facsimile), nineteenth century half calf, rebacked, folio, Thomas Warren 1658--[DUBREUIL (JEAN)] The Practice of Perspective, fourth edition, title printed in red and black, 2 folding engraved plates, 150 full-page engraved illustrations, contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered, 4to, John Bowles 1765--VIGNOLA (GIACOMO BAROZZI DA) Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura, 2 parts in 1 vol., 2 engraved titles (one incorporating a portrait of Vignola), 2 leaves of text and 42 engraved plates only, printed on one side only, all leaves cut to size and mounted, manuscript translation into French of some of the text, later calf, worn, upper cover detached [Harris 1617], folio, [Rome, Rossi, 1617]; and another, by Henry Shaw sold not subject to return (4) Fußnoten Provenance: First work, gift from Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) to Stalker, inscribed at foot of title-page in a contemporary hand "Given by the Reverend Father in God Jeremie Lord Bishop of Down, Conor, and Dromore to James Stalker in Lisburn 1666"; Walter Kerr Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury, bookplate; Third work, Edward Monckton (1744-1832), ownership inscription on title, and Sumerford [Somerford] Hall bookplate.