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Plans, elevations and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, : and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples, and other garden buildings; executed in the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham, and York. / By James Paine, architect, one of the Directors of the Society of Artists of Great-Britain. ; Part the first [-second]. ; Illustrated by seventy-four large folio plates..
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints Oversize 1767 Paine
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paine, James, 1717?-1789.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--England--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. : ill., plans ; 55 cm. (fol.)
- Other Title:
- Noblemen and gentlemen's houses
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent Garden; Mr. Dodsley, Pall Mall; Mr. Brotherton, Cornhil; Mr. Webley, near Chancery-Lane, Holborn; and at the author's house, Salisbury-Street, Strand., M.DCC.LXVII-[M.DCCLXXXIII] [1767-1783]
- Notes:
- Imprint and title of v.2 varies; title reads: Executed in the counties of Nottingham, Essex, Wilts, Derby, Hertford, Suffolk, Salop, Middlesex, and Surrey; imprint reads: Printed for the author; and sold by Mess. Sayer and Bennett; Mr. Beckett; Mr. Robson, at Mr. Boydell's; and at the author's house.
- Title and imprint information for v.2 taken from ESTC(RLIN)
- "Vol. 2 appeared in 1783, accompanied by the second edtion of vol. 1"--ESTC(RLIN)
- V.1: includes 55 illustrations on 74 leaves of plates (some double); engraved by H. Mackworth, Thomas Morris, Tobias Muller, F. Patton, Thomas White, Johann Sebastian Miller, P. Mazell, John June and C. Grignion after James Paine and William Collins.
- Pagination for v.1: [4], iv, [6], 11, [1], 12-16, [5] p., 74 leaves of plates.
- Subscriber's list: p. [1]-[2] of 3rd sequence.
- P. [1] of 4th sequence is unpaginated.
- Archer writes that Paine championed the superiority of Roman buildings over Greek and dismissed the study of Greek architecture by such architects as Robert Wood and Stuart and Revett as wasting their time measuring such 'despicable ruins.' Cf. Archer, p. 651.
- "... Paine was no neo-classicist. His architecture was basically Palladian in character, but he was by no means a slavish imitator of Kent and Burlington."--Colvin, H. Biographical dictionary of British architects, p. 607.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.
- Athenaeum has v.1 only.
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in contemporary full leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Binder's title: Paine's plans of gentlemen's houses.
- Athenaeum copy has "subscriber's list" bound before preface, rather than following.
- Cited in:
- ESTC(RLIN), T135969
- ESTC(RLIN), N023469
- Harris, E. Literature of Brit. architectural books and writers, 664
- Archer, J. Literature of Brit. domestic architecture, 243.1
- Millard Architectural Collection. British books, 50
- Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 2339
- Fowler, 207
- Schimmelman, J. Architectural books in early America, 100
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