Bibliotheca Radcliffiana M DCC XL.

Oxford : [publisher not identified], 1740]

5 leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations (engravings) ; 54 cm (folio)

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Plates dated 1737 and/or 1740

One of two suites without text engraved by George Vertue after James Gibbs showing the latter's design for the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford. 120 sets of the first were printed in 1737. This second version includes alterations (e.g. the dome is now ribbed), and further changes were made before work was completed in 1747, when Gibbs published a full description, Bibliotheca Radcliviana

See Harris, British architectural books, 1990, p. 211; Stanley Gillam, The Radcliffe Camera (Bodleian picture books, n.s. no. 1), 1992; and Stanley Gillam, The building accounts of the Radcliffe Camera, 1958, p. 100-3, 174-80.

Copy 1 Note: Orig. blue wrappers, torn with loss, stitching loose

Copy 2 Note: Without wrappers, stitching loose