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
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Type of record: Book
Title: 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
Classmark: Bedford Collection A096
Creator(s): Wrighte, William
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Duberley (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, nearly opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): M.DCC.XC. [1790]
Language: English
Size and medium: 14,[2]p., plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722684
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019794290605181
Description
With a final advertisement leaf: Books on architecture, &c. Printed for I and J Taylor, 2 pages.
Frontispiece. = plate by Isaac Taylor.
With A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental (J. Taylor's Architectural Library No 59 High Holborn, London), possibly 1795 or later.
First item in a bound volume of 2 items.
Bound with: 2. The carpenter's treasure. / N. Wallis. London: I. and J. Taylor, c.1790.
Indexed in: ESTC
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication in a volume with spine title: Designs. Volume contents: 2. Wallis, N: The carpenter's treasure c. 1790
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A096: contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper over boards, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A096: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ARo/1. Late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century MS. inscription on pastedown: Duberley Gains Hall [ i.e. Duberley family at Gaynes Hall, Cambridgeshire]. MS. annotations [dates] in pencil in John Bedford's hand on Books on architecture, &c. Printed for I and J Taylor, 2 pages.
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