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Architecture.

LANGLEY (Batty and Thomas) Gothic Architecture improved by Rules and Proportions in many Grand Designs..., London: printed for I. & J. Taylor circa 1742, 4to, engraved title, 64 plates, without adverts at end, variable light spotting, mainly to outer margins and moreso to first/last leaves, later half calf; VIOLLET-LE-DUC. Dictionnaire Raisonne de l'Architecture Francaise.., 10 vols. Paris 1868-73, 8vo, half red morocco, lightly rubbed; BLOMFIELD (Sir R) A History of French Architecture 1494-1661, and 1661-1774, in 4 vols., 1911 & 1921, small 4to, plates, quarter red morocco; PUGIN (A WELBY) Contrasts: Or, a Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Middle Ages, and Corresponding Buildings of the Present Day; shewing the Present Decay of Taste, 2nd edition, Edinburgh 1898, 4to, added engraved title and 20 plates, original cloth

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