Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments: also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. with estimates to each design by the great square, and such remarks, explanations and scales are annexed, that the comprehension is rendered easy, and subject most agreeable : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto / by Robert Morris, surveyor.
Alternate Title(s):
Rural architecture.
Edition:
The second edition.
Published / Created:
London : Sold by Robert Sayer, opposite Fetter-Lane, in Fleet Street, MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[12], 8 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engravings by Remi Parr; after Robert Morris.
Subject Terms:
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754. | Architecture -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1757.
Contributors:
Parr, Remi, 1723-, engraver. | Morris, Robert, 1701-1754, ill.