Isaac WARE, A complete body of architecture London,... Lot 185

Isaac WARE, A complete body of architecture London, 1756 1 vol. in-folio: frontispiece, title, 7f. preface and table, 748p., 2f. index, 112 plates num. 1-122 (plates counted double and numbered irregularly; the table announces 105pl.). Bound in mid-twentieth-century half calf in the taste of the period, with a red title page. An important synthesis of British architectural culture in the mid-18th century, marked in particular by Lord Burlington's Palladianism and already developing a neoclassical aesthetic that heralded the production of the following decades.