Architecture.- Nathaniel Lloyd's copy.- Fréart de Chambray (Roland) A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, 2 parts in 1, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black and with woodcut vignette, engraved mostly full-page illustrations, woodcut and engraved head- and tail-pieces, contemporary ink ornamental drawing and writing exercises to verso of frontispiece, title (verso blank) trimmed and laid down, with loss of 1 letter of imprint, F2 piece from upper inner corner torn away, with loss of a few letters, but no loss of sense, H2 ink stain within text (still legible) and with small section excised from outer margin, stained, some foxing, lightly browned, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, covers with some missing leather (but solid) and stained, [Harris 235; Keynes 77], folio, Printed by T. W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1723.

⁂ Fréart's influential work collects together and illustrates the essays of ten architectural masters. The second part is Evelyn's 'An Account of Architects and Architecture', 1723. Our copy with an attractive provenance.

Provenance: 'Frank Caws, Architect, 1894' (ink inscription to front free endpaper); Nathaniel Lloyd, F.S.A. (1867-1933), pupil of Sir Edwin Lutyens and architectural historian (bookplate depicting his Grade I listed house Great Dixter in East Sussex).