A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture By Sir William Chambers. With Illustrations, Notes, and an Examination of Grecian Architecture By Joseph Gwilt.

2 vols. Hardcover. Custom-bound 3/4 brown leather and boards; spine label in black printed in gilt; raised bands; new endpapers. li + 512 pp. continuous pagination. Gwilt’s text illustrated with 11 engraved plates and a number of textual illustrations; Chambers’s text illustrated with 54 engraved plates; frontispiece portrait engraving of Chambers. Includes a Life of Sir William Chambers. Chambers’s text is from his third edition of 1791. Slight rubbing to boards, and scratch to top board of v.2; plates foxed, with tanning to margins; text otherwise clean & very bright. A nice, bright majestic-looking set!