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Grotesque architecture,, or, Rural amusement; : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, Moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green-houses, &c. : Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. : The whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. : To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them. / By William Wrighte, Architect..
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1790 Wrighte
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wrighte, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Garden structures--Early works to 1800.
- Garden structures.
- Garden ornaments and furniture--Early works to 1800.
- Garden ornaments and furniture.
- Physical Description:
- 14, [2] p., [1], 28 leaves of plates : chiefly ill., plans ; 26 cm. (8vo)
- Edition:
- A new edition.
- Other Title:
- Rural amusement
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, nearly opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn., M.DCC.XC. [1790]
- Notes:
- "A catalogue of modern books on architecture .... on sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library..." is a [16] p. pamphlet of bookseller's advertisements, bound at end, following the 28 leaves of plates.
- Includes 28 leaves of plates following text; some copies also with engraved frontispiece. Cf. ESTC(RLIN).
- Frontispiece is signed: "A. Thornthwaite inv., Isaac Taylor sculp."; other 28 plates, although unsigned, are also known to be executed by Isaac Taylor after Thornthwaite. Cf. RLIN CTYAFHX9362B.
- Bookseller's advertisement: [2] p., final sequence.
- First published in 1767; according to ESTC(RLIN), a variant issued in 1790 has no date on t.p. and has imprint reading: "Printed for I. Taylor."
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN), N017932
- Harris, E. Brit. architectural books and writers, 953
- Berlin Cat. Ornamentstichsammlung, 3420
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