[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1st ed. of Swan's "The British Architect" 1745

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(ARCHITECTURE) Swan, Abraham. THE BRITISH ARCHITECT: OR, THE BUILDER’S 
TREASURY OF STAIR-CASES. Containing, I... Method of Drawing the Five Orders... How 
to Glue Up Their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases... III. Designs 
of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV... Chimney Pieces... V. Corbels, Shields... 
VI... Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss’d Roofs... The Whole Being 
Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred Designs and Examples... on Sixty 
Folio Copper-Plates. London: Printed for the Author. 1745. Folio (16-1/4” x 11”). 
viii,20pp. Plus 60 copper engraved plates (some accompanied with letter press 
text). 20th century mottled calf, gilt, brown morocco spine label, over 
earlier marbled boards (lightly soiled). Plates lightly soiled and with occasional 
ink spots and architects’ notations (mostly on versos).     $2,750.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
This work went through a number of English reprints. The first of 1745 has 
become quite scarce; It also became the first architectural work to be printed 
in America, in 1775.

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