Quarto half calf spine gilt and with contrasting title-label (rebacked with most of spine relaid, corners worn) xii+342pp titlepage continues "from the Choice of the Site, to the Completion of the Appendages. Also, Some Observations on Rural Residences, Their Characteristic Situation and Scenery; with instructions on the Art of Laying Out and Ornamenting Grounds; Exemplified in Sixty-Three Plates, containing Diagrams and Exemplars of the various Styles of Domestic Architecture, with a Description, and Wood-Cuts of the Appropriate Furniture, Garden, and Landscape Scenery of Each." Styles include Egyptian, Roman, Tudor, Stuart, French chateau, Florentine Villa, Swiss cottage, Oriental pavillions, Tudor Gate Houses, etc.also stables, entrance lodges, dog kennels Ice houses etc. Occasional, mainly marginal foxing except for portrait frontis more heavily foxed. Tissue guards in place and all plates in neat condition.