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 pavillions, 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 Wright, architect,.
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Author / Creator: | Wrighte, William. |
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Edition: | A new edition. |
Imprint: | London : Printed for I. Taylor, nearly opposite Great Turn-Stile, Holborn, [1790?] |
Description: | 13,[3]p.,plates ; 8⁰. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10244547 |
Notes: | With [3]p. of advertisement at end - "Books printed for I. Taylor, no.56, High Holborn". Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. English Short Title Catalog, N30872. Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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