Description Of Three Designs for the two Houses of Parliament, Made In 1779, 1794 And 1796, And Of The Other Works Of Art In The North Drawing-Room Of The House And Museum In Lincoln's Inn Fields, The Residence Of The Professor Of Architecture In The Royal Academy. In A Letter To A Friend. Extracted From A Work Now In Progress.
This is an offprint of pages from Soane's Description of the house and museum ... [1836] published privately. It contains one lithographed print, View of the North Drawing Room, Plate XXXIV, on the walls of which the designs for the Houses of Parliament are hung and are discussed in the text. On page [2] is the printed letter to the recipient of this offprint, signed by Soane and dated December 21, 1835. At the end of the text on page 74 is the author's name and the same date as the letter. Also at the foot of the page is the name of the printers: Levey, Robson, and Franklyn, St. Martin's Lane.
References
Recorded in Royal Academy of Arts Library, Catalogue, 1877, p. 137 : found under Habershon, The ancient Half-Timbered Houses of England - the work with which it has been bound.
Royal Institute of British Architects, Early printed books, 4 (2001), no. 3090
Provenance
The title-age is inscribed, 'To The President & Council of the Royal Academy from the author with sentiments of respect
Binding Note
19th century binding with leather spine; gilt lettering reading, 'Habershon / On Half-Timbered Houses / Soane's / Houses of Parliament' and 'R.A. 1836' (Bound with one other work, see 22/22)