Morris, Robert, 1701-1754, Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs , 1757
- Title(s):
- Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...
- Additional Title(s):
- Architectural remembrancer.
- Published/Created:
- London : R. Sayer ..., 1757.
- Physical Description:
- [2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsNA997 M67 A73 1757Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3439829
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BAC: Publisher's advertisement: [2] p. at front.
English short title catalogue, T188105
Archer 213.3
First published in 1751, with title: Architectural remembrancer.
Illustrations by Parr and Henry Roberts; after Robert Morris.
Engraved throughout.
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994,c1990. 566 - Subject Terms:
- Architecture -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800.Architecture -- Early works to 1800.Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Early works to 1800.Engraving -- Specimens -- 1757.Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.Sayer, Robert -- Publisher.
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