An Essay on the Construction and Building of Chimneys. Including an Enquiry into the Common Causes of Their Smoking, and the Most Effectual Remedies for Removing so Intolerable a Nuisance .. by Clavering, Robert - 1788

London: J. and J. Taylor, 1788. Second edition. Folding engraved frontispiece, 1 folding chart. [iv], 107, [1], 8 (catalogue) pp., with half-title. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, red morocco spine label. Corners rubbed, light toning and offsetting, repaired closed tear to frontispiece, 19th-century ownership inscription on front. Second edition. Folding engraved frontispiece, 1 folding chart. [iv], 107, [1], 8 (catalogue) pp., with half-title. 8vo. Second edition of a work often found bound with the third edition of Franklin's Observations on Smokey Chimneys (1793). First published in 1779, with editions in 1788 and 1793. "There is a certain truth in [Clavering's] criticism of esteemed and wordly architects from Vitruvius onwards, wo have designed and executed strong and elegant buildings without ever considering a fundamental 'conveniency' like heating and ventilation" (Harris). Harris 134; ESTC T164476 (3 copies)