GIBBS, James. A Book of Architecture Containing Designs of Buildings And Ornaments . London: n.d., 1728. 2° (518 x 358mm). 3 page subscribers list, 150 engraved plates, some double-page, extra-illustrated with cut down mounted mezzotint portrait of Gibbs. Contemporary calf (worn). FIRST EDITION. This work was enormously influential, not only architecturally in Great Britain and throughout the world (India, South Africa, the West Indies, and America where it were it profoundly influenced the architects of the White House), but also because James Gibbs was the first architect to produce independently a book of his own designs. Harris 257; Fowler p.118; Berlin Kat. 2270.
GIBBS, James. A Book of Architecture Containing Designs of Buildings And Ornaments . London: n.d., 1728. 2° (518 x 358mm). 3 page subscribers list, 150 engraved plates, some double-page, extra-illustrated with cut down mounted mezzotint portrait of Gibbs. Contemporary calf (worn). FIRST EDITION. This work was enormously influential, not only architecturally in Great Britain and throughout the world (India, South Africa, the West Indies, and America where it were it profoundly influenced the architects of the White House), but also because James Gibbs was the first architect to produce independently a book of his own designs. Harris 257; Fowler p.118; Berlin Kat. 2270.
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