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Essays on Gothic architecture, / by the Rev. T. Warton, Rev. J. Bentham, Captain Grose, and the Rev. J. Milner. With a letter to the publisher ; illustrated with twelve plates of ornaments, &c. selected from ancient buildings; calculated to exhibit the various styles of different periods..
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1802 Essays
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--England.
- Architecture.
- Architecture, Gothic.
- Cathedrals--England.
- Cathedrals.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, [*iii]-*vi, [1], 150, [*135]-*154, [2] p., 12 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (metal cuts) ; 25 cm. (8vo)
- Edition:
- The second edition., To which is added, A list of the cathedrals of England, with their dimensions: also two new plates.
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Holborn, for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn., 1802.
- Notes:
- "A list of cathedrals" (p. [*135]-*154) inserted before p. [135].
- Athenaeum copy: "Advertisement to the second edition" (p. [*3]-*6) is bound before preface (p. iii-xxiii)
- With a final advertisement leaf.
- Preface signed J.T. [i.e. J. Taylor].
- 12 engraved plates including frontispiece signed at bottom "Published by J. Taylor, Holborn, London"; plate 11 of Durham Cathedral is signed: "W Turner del., S. Porter sculp."; plate 12 of Westminster Abbey is signed "J.C. Barrow delt; W. Cooke sculpt."
- Except for slight revision of the Preface and Explanation of plates, the book is a reissue of the 1800 edition. Cf. Fowler.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.
- Athenaeum copy: Binder's title: Gothic architecture.
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in contemporary full mottled leather,.
- Athenaeum also has copy of 1800 (1st) edition.
- Athenaeum copy: With bookplate of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History.
- Cited in:
- Fowler, 439
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