CHAMBERS (William). A Treatise on the Part of Civil Architecture: Illustrated by Fifty-three Plates... To which are added copious notes, and An Essay of the Principles of Design in Architecture, by John B. Papworth... with nine plates illustrative of Grecian architecture.1836

London: Printed for M. Taylor, Fifth and best edition, folio (370 x 270 mm), viii, 222pp., with half-title, 62 engraved plates (mostly double-page), small library stamp to verso of title, a couple of unobtrusive blind stamps, cont. half morocco, rubbed, neatly reback, spine tooled in gilt. First published in 1759, this is one of the most significant theoretical work by an English architect. BAL 603; Archer, 40.6; Harris, 129.