WILME, B.P. A Manual of Writing and Printing Characters, both Ancient and Modern, for the Use of Architects, Engineers and Surveyors, Engravers, Printers, Decorators, and Draughtsmen. London: for the Author by John Weale, 1845. 4to (274 x 221mm.) 25 plates, 4 folding, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Browning and dust-soiling to margins, tape repair verso one plate, scattered spotting.) Original black cloth (hinges cracked, worn). – And a further fourteen related volumes (including F. Delamotte’s ‘The Book of Ornamental Alphabets Ancient and Medieval from the Eighth Century, with Numerals’, 1863, oblong 4to, and W.R. Tymms and M. Digby Wyatt’s ‘The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times’, 1860, 4to, and John Ruskin’s ‘Lectures on Architecture and Painting’, second edition, 1855, 8vo, and a manuscript folder of ecclesiastical ornament and design drawings, [circa 1870]) (15).