CLAYTON (John) — Ancient Timber Edifices of England.

London: Thomas Maclean, 1846. First edition, large folio (565 x 375 mm), tinted litho title leaf, litho dedication, [8]pp., letterpress text, 26 tinted litho plates (of which eleven are perspective views, the rest measured drawings), dedication leaf and verso of title rather spotted, original quarter green morocco, spine defective. A large and scarce volume by the architect John Clayton FRIBA (c.1820-1861), in which he provides perspective views and measured illustrations of some of the most notable black-and-white half-timber buildings in Cheshire, Shropshire and his native county of Herefordshire. These include Leominster Town Hall and other buildings attributed to the 17th century carpenter-architect John Abel, a number of country houses including Pitchford Hall and Moreton Hall, and some opulent town houses in Chester and Shrewsbury no longer extant today.