Modern Finishings For Rooms: A Series Of Designs For Vestibules, Halls, Stair Cases, Dressing Rooms, Boudoirs, Libraries, And Drawing Rooms;; With Their Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, And Other Finishings, To A Large Scale; And the Several Mouldings and Cornices at full Size: Showing Their Construction And Relative Proportions. Etc.

London: J. Taylor, 1811. First edition. Hardcover. Recased in modern three quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Fine. 23 pages in text. 26 x 21 cm. Eighty-six engraved plates. Pocock was an early member of the Institute of British Architects, and was Master of the Carpenters' Company. "As an architect he was competent but unremarkable, his best work being in the Greek Doric style" [see: COLVIN, p.649]. An important work being one of the first to survey interior decoration. ARCHER 63. BERLIN CATALOGUE 2319. From 1799 to 1827 he exhibited designs of minor works at the Royal Academy, the most ambitious of which was a 'Design for a Temple of Fame.' Plates clean and bright, remarkably so with modest toning to the text, and stamp on title page of Mercantile Library Philadephia.