A treatise on civil architecture, : In which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands. / By William Chambers, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, of the Royal Academy of Architecture in Paris, and of the Society of Sciences in Stockholm, architect to the King, the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.
Sir William Chambers Kt (Göteborg 1723 - London 1796)
Category
Books
Date
1768
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3013361
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], iv, 86 p., [50] leaves of plates ; fol. Muddy marks on plate opposite p. 3 [mouldings]. Coffee stains on: p. 21 [Doric order]; plate opposite p. 36 [Persians and Caryatids]; plate opposite p. 72 [Windows]; plate at end of Triumphal arch at Wilton. Provenance: No marks of provenance. Binding: Eighteenth-century tree sheep over boards on eight raised cords; gilt spine tooling; red spine label [to read correctly if laid horizontally on front cover]; gilt roll on board edges; red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Sir William Chambers Kt (Göteborg 1723 - London 1796) , author