Architecture.- Plaw (John) Rural Architecture; or Designs, from the Simple Cottage to the Decorated

Architecture.- Plaw (John) Rural Architecture; or Designs, from the Simple Cottage to the Decorated Villa, fourth edition, aquatint frontispiece and 61 aquatint plates & engraved plans printed in sepia on thick paper, folding folio advertisement leaf for Taylor's Architectural Library bound in at end, foxed, plate 33 torn and repaired, contemporary half calf, uncut, rebacked preserving old red roan label, [cf. Abbey Life 47, Berlin Kat. 2296 & Millard, British 57, 1794 edition], I. & J.Taylor, 1796 § Durand (Jean Nicolas Louis) Précis des Leçons d'Architecture données a l'École Polytechnique, 2 vol. in 1, second edition, vol.1 lacking half-title but present in vol.2, 64 double-page engraved plates mounted on stubs, foxing and occasional soiling, title to vol.1 creased, modern half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., Paris, 1809, Raymond Erith's copies with his ink signature to front pastedown or free endpaper; and 2 others, architecture, 4to & 8vo (4)*** Plaw had introduced a new style of architectural book with his Rural Architecture of 1785, with aquatint designs set in a picturesque landscape. "Plaw set the model for villa and cottage pattern books that became a feature of architectural publishing in England for the next fifty years." (Millard British 57).