An essay on architecture; in which its true principles are explained, and invariable rules proposed, for directing the judgment and forming the taste of the gentleman and the architect, with regard to the different kings of buildings, the embellishment of cities, and the planning of gardens. Adorned with a frontispiece, designed by Mr. Wale, and curiously engraven.
Abbe Marc-Antoine Laugier (1711-1769)
Category
Books
Date
1755
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3003602
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, [2], 272, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Provenance: manuscript inscription in eighteenth-century hand on title page (partially cropped-off by binder): "Translated from the French by one who neither understood French English nor his subject, nor had ..." [rest illegible and cropped]. Binding: eighteenth-century quarter-bound tan sheepskin, with marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five sewing supports; gilt fillets and gilt title label on spine; remnants of lozenge-shaped paper label at head of spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Abbe Marc-Antoine Laugier (1711-1769), author Benjamin Cole (1697 - 1783), engraver (printmaker) Samuel Wale (Great Yarmouth 1721 – London 1786), artist