Lot 324 , King, Edward. Munimenta Antiqua; or, Observations on Antient Castles. Including Remarks on the Whole Progress of Architecture, 2 vols. only (of 4), 66 engraved plates including 4 double-paged with 2 hand-coloured, indice
° King, Edward. Munimenta Antiqua; or, Observations on Antient Castles. Including Remarks on the Whole Progress of Architecture, 2 vols. only (of 4), 66 engraved plates including 4 double-paged with 2 hand-coloured, indices to rear, contemporary calf, London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1799-1801, folio. Sold with Augustus Pugin’s ‘Specimens of Gothic Architecture’, 2 vols., [1825], and seven more volumes related to architecture (11).
£60-90
Condition:
King- gilt crest of John Ker, Duke of Roxborough, to upper covers, bookplate of John Reade to front pastedowns, spotting to titles and most margins, lacking blanks, endpapers replaced, rebacked, rubbed; Pugin- minor to moderate spotting to plates, blanks and endpapers replaced, cloth rebind, extremities heavily rubbed
Sold for £190