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203 - Wallis (N.) A Book of Ornaments in the Palmyrene Taste containing upwards of Sixty New Designs for Ceilings, Pannels, Pateras & Mouldings..., first edition, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 11 plates, title with light marginal soiling and small hole to lower margin, [Berlin Kat. 3994; Harris 899], I.Taylor, 1771; The Complete Modern Joiner, or a Collection of Original Designs in the Present Taste, for Chimney-Pieces and Door-Cases, with their Mouldings and Enrichments at Large, second edition, 4pp. comprising letterpress title and table of proportions for chimney-pieces/advertisement leaf, 36 engraved plates, offsetting from first plate to publisher's list of books, otherwise clean, [Harris 903; cf. Berlin Kat. 3822, 1792 edition], I.Taylor, [1772], together 2 vol. in 1 (the second bound first), modern book-label of Edmond L. Lincoln, later half calf over marbled boards, a little rubbed, oblong 4to
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Wallis (N.) A Book of Ornaments in the Palmyrene Taste containing upwards of Sixty New Designs for Ceilings, Pannels, Pateras & Mouldings..., first edition, engraved throughout with pictorial title and 11 plates, title with light marginal soiling and small hole to lower margin, [Berlin Kat. 3994; Harris 899], I.Taylor, 1771; The Complete Modern Joiner, or a Collection of Original Designs in the Present Taste, for Chimney-Pieces and Door-Cases, with their Mouldings and Enrichments at Large, second edition, 4pp. comprising letterpress title and table of proportions for chimney-pieces/advertisement leaf, 36 engraved plates, offsetting from first plate to publisher's list of books, otherwise clean, [Harris 903; cf. Berlin Kat. 3822, 1792 edition], I.Taylor, [1772], together 2 vol. in 1 (the second bound first), modern book-label of Edmond L. Lincoln, later half calf over marbled boards, a little rubbed, oblong 4to *** Rare pattern-books of architectural ornaments. No copy of the first edition of The Complete Modern Joiner appears to have survived.
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