Grotesque architecture, or, Rural amusement : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries ... : the whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs ... : to which is added a full explanation, in letter press, and true method of executing them / by William Wrighte.
Alternate Title(s):
Grotesque architecture.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for H. Webley, 1767.
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsNA8450 O9 1766 Copy 1Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionRare Books and ManuscriptsNA8450 W74 1767 Copy 2Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center has two copies: Copy 1 is bound with Temple builder's most useful companion / by Thomas Collins Overton. London, 1766 and has the bookplate of Richard Blackett Beaumont. Copy 2 has the bookplate of John Smyth.English short title catalogue, T86488Harris, E. British architectural books and writers. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994,c1990. 952Leaf of advertisements preceding plates.Illustrations by Isaac Taylor; after A. Thornwaite.
Subject Terms:
Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Early works to 1800. | Garden structures -- Early works to 1800. | Webley, H. -- Publisher. | Beaumont, Richard Blackett, b.1926 -- Bookplate. | Smyth, John, 1748–1811 -- Bookplate. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1767.
Contributors:
Taylor, Isaac, 1730–1807, engraver. | Thornthwaite, J. ill.