THE BRITISH CARPENTER Or a Treatise on Carpentry Containing the Most Concise and Authentick Rules of that Art...[&] A SUPPLEMENT Containing Palladio's Orders of Architecture.. by PRICE Francis

Printed by C. and J. Ackers for C. Hitch and L. Hawes and R. Baldwin, 1753. 3rd edn. Tall 8vo (10 x 8¼ ins). Contemporary full calf, spine gilt ruled in six compartments with gilt lettered label, boards with double gilt rolled filet borders (poor - upper board and front prelim detached and boards heavily rubbed and worn). Pp. [viii] + 72 + [2] blank, illus with 62 engraved plates and table and engraved head and tailpieces and initials in text (pages and plates toned and previous owners' 1854 and 1854 inscriptions on front paste-down).