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Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country, in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1750 Morris
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- Format:
- Book
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Robert, 1701-1754.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Great Britain.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Architecture.
- Greek revival (Architecture).
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- [12], 8 p., 50 plates : ill., plans ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the author and to be had of him at his house in Hyde Park Street, Grosvenor Square, M.DCC.L (1750).
- Notes:
- Title vignette.
- Illustrations: 50 full plates : engraved. All of them are signed either as: Robertus Morris architects. del. & inv., Parr sculp., or Robt. Morris inv. & del., Parr sculp. Head and tail pieces.
- Binding: Half bound in brown leather and marbled paper; spine with raised bands, gilt fillet and gilt letters.
- Subsequent editions (1755 and 1757) retitled Select architecture. Cf.Harris and Savage, British architectural books and writers.
- Richard Ryan, in Wiebenson, Architectural theory states, "the simple geometrical designs were especially influential in the United States where both Thomas Jefferson and Peter Harrison owned and used copies." Jefferson owned a later edition (O'Neal, Jefferson's fine arts library, 87) and Schimmelman, Architectural books in early america (#80) found copies being offered for sale in New York and Philadelphia by 1760.
- John Penn, Jr. (1760-1834) owned a copy of the 1757 edition of Morris's Select architecture and his Philadelphia villa, called The solitude (1784), is based on plate 37. Cf. Roger W. Moss, The American country house (1990), p. 92.
- Cited in:
- Archer 216.1
- Harris & Savage 574
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