Lot 148: GEORGE RICHARDSON (1736-1817)

The New Vitruvius Britannicus: Volume II: Eight Plates eight engravings with aquatint, 1800-7, on laid papers, published by George Richardson, London, with margins, all with central vertical folds where previously bound, related creasing throughout, pale time staining on several plates, Plate LV-LVI with an area of moisture damage at the left center of the image, Plate LXXI-LXXII heavily creased mainly in the plate on the right, Plate XLIX-L with the title amended in pencil, Plate LXVII-LXVIII with repaired tears at the center of the image, otherwise apparently in good condition, in black painted wood frames with gilded trim and French mats with wash lines, not examined out of the frames all P. approx. 10 x 27 in. (254 x 684 mm.) (8).