additional pictorial aquatint title and 27 plates, most aquatint, all hand-coloured, tissue guards, light marginal spotting and soiling, original red cloth, gilt, bookseller's ticket of Simms & Dinham of Manchester, a little rubbed and mottled, skilfully rebacked, [Abbey, Life 51, uncoloured apart from title), 4to, M.A.Nattali, [?c.1828]. Pugin's first book, the plates originally appeared in Ackermann's Repository of Arts from 1825 to 1827. Copies are generally uncoloured, including the Abbey copy, and have Ackermann as the publisher. The plates include Gothic beds, tables & chairs, sofas, bookcases and even "an horizontal grand piano forte".