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SHAW (Henry). A Booke of Sundry Draughtes. Principaly serving for Glasiers: and not Impertieent for Plasterers, and Gardeners: besides sundry other professions.1848

London: William Pickering, Small 4to, 8pp., with half-title, title page within elegant wood-engraved border, followed by 117 lithographed plates, occasional light foxing, original cloth-backed boards, one of the designs reproduced on upper cover, a bit soiled and worn at extremities, MS. title label to spine. "One of Shaw's rarer works, largely a reprint of Walter Gidde's 1615 book of the same name, consisting of a bewildering array of designs for the leading of windows."—Pickering & Chatto, Catalogue 708. Bookplate to front paste-down of W. Harry Rylands (a Cheshire family of ironmasters); wood-engraved bookplate of Nathaniel Lloyd, FSA, to front free-endpaper. Not in Keynes.

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