The architect and builder's miscellany, or pocket library; : containing original picturesque designs in architecture, of plans and elevations for cottages, farm, country and town houses, public buildings, temples, greenhouses, bridges, lodges and gates for the entrances to parks and pleasure grounds, stables, monumental tombs, garden seats, … / By Charles Middleton, ...
Charles Middleton (1756-1818)
Category
Books
Date
1799
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101122
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6] p., LX leaves of plates ; 8vo. Hand-coloured plates. Pencil number (price?) on front pastedown: "32/-". Bookseller's pencil codes and pencil number "5" on rear pastedown. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early nineteenth-century full sprinkled calf; recessed cords; gilt tooled spine with gilt stamped urns; red spine label: 'Middletons Architecture'; gilt rolled board edges.
Makers and roles
Charles Middleton (1756-1818), author