Designs for Chimnies: and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. To which is added, A concise, but clear Description of the Five Orders, regulated by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts. With some Observations on Rules and Methods used in Drawing. SWAN (Abraham) ARCHITECTURE

First edition, 8vo (210 x 130 mm), vii, [8]-31, [1]pp., printed on thick paper, 54 engraved plates of 53 leaves (plates 18/19 is a double-page plate), a few close-trimmed affecting pagination and imprints, woodcut head-pieces and initials, marbled endpapers, rebound in olive straight-grained morocco by Lloyd of London, spine gilt extra, triple gilt fillet border to boards, turn-ins and board edges gilt tooled, all edges gilt, a fine copy. The last of Abraham Swan's architectural pattern books. The plates provide both an extensive selection of designs for chimneypieces and drawings of ornament and the classical orders. It is intended as a practical guide for 'young practitioners' and designed to be 'portable and convenient for the pocket'. As such, copies of this book are seldom found in such fine condition. BAL 3223 (imperfect); Harris, 872; Park, 82.