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 sotnes, 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 methods of executing them
A new ed.
by William Wrighte, architect
Published
1815
by
Printed by W. Stratford ... for J. Taylor
in
London
.
Written in English.
Edition Notes
First published 1767.
Frontispiece signed by Isaac Taylor as engraver after A. Thornthwaite's drawing, followed by 28 numbered plates.
Bound with: A list of books on the various branches of architecture and building (London : J. Taylor, 1816).
Getty copy has signature of Mrs. Otway-Cave, dated 1818.
Other Titles |
Grotesque architecture |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
8 p., [29] leaves of plates : |
Number of pages |
29 |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL24135912M |
Internet Archive |
architecturerura00wrig |
History Created April 10, 2010 · 3 revisions
| July 9, 2010 | Edited by EdwardBot | tidy contributions list, improve by statement, add notes |
| April 13, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
| April 10, 2010 | Created by ImportBot | Initial record created, from Internet Archive MARC record. |