Lot 185
Busby (Charles Augustine) A Series of Designs for Villas and Country Houses, 24 engraved plates, 14 hand-coloured aquatints, 1835.
Hammer Price: £650
Description
Busby (Charles Augustine) A Series of Designs for Villas and Country Houses, 24 engraved plates, of which 14 hand-coloured aquatints and 10 engraved plans, 2 plans on different paper and lightly foxed (one a little shorter at foot), other plates with some marginal soiling, text foxed, old inscription on front free endpaper, bookplates of Rev. Thomas Knox and Robert Edward McLean, with loosely-inserted architectural drawing for house at High Holywood for R.E.McLean Esq. by Thomas Houston Architects of Belfast dated 1907 (3 plans and 2 elevations, pencil with watercolour, on tracing paper, c.525 x 690mm.) and another smaller plan for Arthur Square Development Co. Ltd. of Belfast and a rough pencil plan of the first, original cloth, rubbed and faded, rebacked preserving most of spine, corners worn, [Abbey, Life 10], 4to, 1835.
⁂ Originally published in 1808 but with the plates printed in sepia and not coloured.
Description
Busby (Charles Augustine) A Series of Designs for Villas and Country Houses, 24 engraved plates, of which 14 hand-coloured aquatints and 10 engraved plans, 2 plans on different paper and lightly foxed (one a little shorter at foot), other plates with some marginal soiling, text foxed, old inscription on front free endpaper, bookplates of Rev. Thomas Knox and Robert Edward McLean, with loosely-inserted architectural drawing for house at High Holywood for R.E.McLean Esq. by Thomas Houston Architects of Belfast dated 1907 (3 plans and 2 elevations, pencil with watercolour, on tracing paper, c.525 x 690mm.) and another smaller plan for Arthur Square Development Co. Ltd. of Belfast and a rough pencil plan of the first, original cloth, rubbed and faded, rebacked preserving most of spine, corners worn, [Abbey, Life 10], 4to, 1835.
⁂ Originally published in 1808 but with the plates printed in sepia and not coloured.