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Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste, : being above fifty intire new designs of plans, sections, elevations, &c. (Many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals, &c. : containing paling of several sorts, gates, garden seats, both close and open, umbrellos, alcoves, grotto's and grotesque seats, hermitages, triumphal arches, temples, banqueting houses and rooms, rotundo's, observatories, ice-houses, bridges, boats and cascades, : also, an obelisk or monument, with directions where proper to be erected, and the method how to execute them : The whole neatly engrav'd on fifty four copper-plates / From the designs of Charles Over, architect..
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1758 Over
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Over, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Follies (Architecture).
- Pergolas.
- Gothic revival (Architecture).
- Architecture, Chinese.
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Genre:
- Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
- Physical Description:
- 8 p., 54 leaves of plates : chiefly ill., plans ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for Robert Sayer, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street., MDCCLVIII. [1758].
- Notes:
- A copy of this title was available in New York and Philadelphia by 1760. Cf. Schimmelman, Architectural books in early America.
- Illustrations by J. Couse.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum purchased in memory of E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter.
- Athenaeum copy: With engraved armorial bookplate of Sir L. Dundas Barth. of Kerse (with original press and shelf numbers)
- Cited in:
- Archer, J. Literature of Brit. domestic architecture, 233.1
- ESTC (RLIN), N042147
- Harris, E. Brit. architectural books and writers, 606
- Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 3417
- Park, H. List of architectural books, 61
- Schimmelman, J. Architectural books in early America, 92
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