(GEN) With over 140 magnificent plates, some folding (including three of Stonehenge), and some coloured, of British castles, cathedrals, monuments and churches as well as architectural drawings of the same.||(CON) Vol I: [-]2, a-h2, B-4X2, 4Y1, Contents.Vol II: [-]1, a1, B-4H2, Contents.Vol III: [-]1, a-b2, B-4B2, Contents.Vol IV: [-]2, a4, b4, B-4E2, [-]2, B-[O]2, Contents||(REF) Lowndes, 1273; Fifty plus copies in ESTC||(PRV) Accession no. 421: the historian Sir Richard Colt Hoare originally owned this set; in Volume I a subsequent owner has inscribed a rhyming pun on the subject of Hoare's occasional annotations.||(PHY) Accession no. 421: bound in full polished brown diced calf gilt, original spine laid down, gilt inner and outer dentelles, marbled endpapers, raised bands; top edges gilt. 4E in Volume IV has been mis-labelled 4D, but the text is fine. Signature [O] in Volume IV is blank.