A new book of Chinese designs, calculated to improve the present taste : consisting of figures, buildings, & furniture, landskips, birds, beasts, flow.rs and ornaments, &c. / by Messrs. Edwards, and Darly.

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Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, A new book of Chinese designs, calculated to improve the present taste , MDCCLIV [1754]

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Creator:: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720–approximately 1778
Title(s):: A new book of Chinese designs, calculated to improve the present taste : consisting of figures, buildings, & furniture, landskips, birds, beasts, flow.rs and ornaments, &c. / by Messrs. Edwards, and Darly.
Additional Title(s):: Chinese designs
Published/Created:: [London] : Published according to Act of Parliament, & sold by the authors, the first house on the right in Northumberland-Court, in the Strand, & by the print & booksellers in town & country, MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 120 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA3310 .D37 1754+ Oversize
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Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3305637
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Engraved throughout. The first [4] p. consist of engraved t.p. and index.
Illustrations by and after Edwards and Darly.
"In 1759, many of his [Darly] chinoiserie designs reappeared with landscape backgrounds added in a book entitled 'Chinese architecture', by an unknown author, P. Decker. Others, meanwhile were printed in 'The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of Japanning made easy' (c. 1760). Likewise his 'antique' orders and ornaments were reissued in 1773 as 'A compleat body of architecture'"--Cf. Harris
Index of plates: p. [3].
Harris identifies Edwards as George Edwards.
English short title catalogue, T14907
Archer, J. Literature of British domestic architecture, 1715-1842 66.1
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1990, 187
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840 p. 1725
BAC NA3310 .D37 1754+: Imperfect: lacks plate 97.
Subject Terms:: Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800.
Decoration and ornament -- Chinese influences -- Early works to 1800.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Early works to 1800.
Contributors:: Edwards, George engraver.
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