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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Da Capo Press, NY, 1972. Hardcover. As New. 4to, hardcover. No dj. Near fine condition. Previous owner's namecard pasted on inside front cover. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 116 pp. text, illus.

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1836. Third edition. leather_bound. Full contemporary calf with black leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 116 pages. 28 x 22 cm, Sixty plates, plus and additional, Plate A (not noted in "Contents of Plates") following Plate no. 43, and giving four designs for base mouldings. HITCHCOCK 137. Greek orders and exterior and interior trim, plans, elevations, and details of a Doric church on plates 51-56. KARPEL B98. "Benjamin's fifth book. Pl.7 is a new order invented by the author for a specific American use." Benjamin in an explanation notes, "My reasons for so doing proceed from the fact, that more than one half of all columns and entablatures erected in country situations.... belong neither to the Grecian nor Roman system." Scattered foxing throughout, chip at backstrip head.

Boston & Philadelphia: Benjamin B. Mussey / DeSilver Thomas, 1835. 1/4 leather. Very Good. The 1835 stated 2nd edition. Tight and VG n its handsome rebind, an elegant, recent 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, with offsetting red-leather title label and 5 compartments along the spine. Internally, the text shows forgiveable foxing along the plates and to much of Asher Benjamin's text. The plates (all 60 of them) and the text though remain eminently bright and legible. Quarto, new pastedowns and endsheets as well.

Boston: Published by the Author, and Carter, Hendee & Co, 1833. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; nicely rebound in the period style in dark blue half-morocco over marbled boards with red morocco title label lettered in gilt and with new endsheets; vii, {1]. [9]-116 pages; with 60 plates, one of which (plate 55) is bound out of order; a piece approximately 1" x 4.5" has been excised from the top of the title leaf, undoubtedly to cut out a previous owner name; there is a 20th century name penned on the the front endpaper and a contemporary name penned on the first blank leaf; there is foxing throughout as well tidelines at the corners.~~The First Edition of Mr. Benjamin's important work, which redirected the Federal Style in American architecture which he had helped to desiminate, to the Greek Revival movement.~~. Very Good binding.

Boston, MA: Benjamin B. Mussey. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1835. 2nd Edition. Leather. (in glass case) . 4to., 199 pp., modern leather binding, (rebound with new endpapers and spine), origianl cover pasted on, extensive repair to ffe, staining and foxing .

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1843. First edition. 8vo. 28 engraved plates. viii, [9]-232 pp. Publisher's cloth rebacked in roan; covers rubbed and stained, occasional light foxing First edition of Benjamin's final work, which Hitchcock notes was his least popular work and only appeared in two editions. Perhaps for that reason it is also one of Benjamin's scarcest titles. Of note is the section on the theory of carpentry, including "36 experiments made on various kinds of American timber; experiments made in various ways of European timber by European artists; and on the strength of iron, steel, copper, brass, tin, lead, stone, bricks, cement, etc."PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label, purchased from Charles Wood)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 115

Boston: Published by the Author, and Carter, Hendee & Co., 1833. First edition. 4to. 60 engraved plates (plate 55 bound out-of-order). vii, [1], [9]-116 pp. Contemporary speckled sheep, red morocco spine label; spine darkened, foxing throughout as usual First edition of Asher Benjamin's fifth book, after his full embrace of the Greek Revival. The plates illustrate the Greek orders in close detail, as well as frontispieces, porticoes, door, windows, cornices, stairs and various elements of carpentry and construction, and concludes with a complete plan of a church. Plate VII illustrates an order of Benjamin's invention that does not conform to any existing classical model, reasoning that "more than one half of all the columns and entablatures erected in country situations, for either internal or external finishings, belong neither to the Grecian nor Roman system." PROVENANCE: Wm. C. Taber, New Bedford (bookseller's ticket); William Reese (book-label)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 135