Essays on Gothic architecture
Thomas Warton the Younger (Basingstoke 1728 - Oxford 1790)
Category
Books
Date
1808
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3145637
Summary
Bibliographic description
*vi, [1], iv-xxiii, [1], 133, [4], *139-*154, [1], 136-150, [2] p., 12 leaves of plates, [2] folded : ill. ; 8vo. Bound with "Rudiments of ancient architecture", London, 1804. Plate 1 not bound as frontispiece, but bound with the rest of the plates between p.150 and final advertisement leaf. Binding: nineteenth century sprinkled calf; gilt tooling on edges of boards; gilt tooling and gilt tooled green morocco title label reading "Essays & rudiments of Gothic & ancient architecture" on spine; text block edges sprinkled blue.
Makers and roles
Thomas Warton the Younger (Basingstoke 1728 - Oxford 1790) James Bentham (1708-1794) Francis Grose (1731-1791) John Milner (1752-1826) Bishop of Castabala John Taylor (1781-1864)