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,.
William Wrighte (fl.1767)
Category
Books
Date
1790
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247563.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
13, [3] p., [1], 28 leaves of plates ; 8vo. Bound with 'The rudiments of ancient architecture' (London, 1789) and 'Eighteen vases, modern & antique' (London, 178-?). Head of leaves trimmed in binding. Pencil notes on front pastedown: "2 vols. in 1. 51 plates and 5 drawings."; (in a different hand, partially obscured by bookplate): "2 vols in 1 … plates …"; and (in another hand, erased): "15/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late eighteenth- / early nineteenth- century half calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; gilt tooled spine.
Makers and roles
William Wrighte (fl.1767), author