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ABC/302
Title
The New Vitruvius Britannicus: consisting of plans and elevations of modern buildings ... in Great Britain. Vol I only.
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- 1802 (Creation)
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1 volume
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(c1738-1813)
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Scottish architectural and decorative draftsman and writer on architecture.
ODNB Entry:
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23553
ODNB Entry:
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23553
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The New Vitruvius Britannicus consisting of Plans and Elevations of Modern Buildings, public and private, erected in Great Britain by the most celebrated architects. It begins with a short introduction and a suite of explanations of all the plates that follow. There are 72 original Etchings of the following buildings: Bowden Park, in Wiltshire, one of the Seats of Barnard Dickinson Esq.; Tusmore House, in Oxfordshire, the Seat of William Fermor Esq.; Pavilion at Brighton, in Sussex, belonging to His Royal Highness the Princess of Wales; Public Assembly Rooms; Sydney Lodge, near Hamble in Hampshire, the Seat of the Hon. Mrs Yorke; Gore Court, in Kent, the Seat of Gabriel Harper Esq.; Basildon House, in Berkshire, the Seat of Sir Francis Sykes; Longford House, in Shropshire, the Seat of Ralph Leeke Esq.; Broomfield Lodge, at Clapham, Surrey, the Seat of late Hon. Edward James Eliot; Villa at Putney Park, near Roehampton, in Surrey, belonging to Belby Thompson Esq.; Building erected on Great Tower Hill, London, by the Honourable the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford-Strond; Seat of William Henry Pigou Esq., at Windmill Hill, Sussex; Watton Wood Hall, in Hertfordshire, for Sir Thomas Rumbold; Southgate Grove, near Enfield, Middlesex, the Seat of Walker Gray Esq.; Addington Lodge, near Croydon, Surrey, the Seat of James Trecothick Esq.; Session House, Middlesex, London; Stoke Park House, near Devizes, Wiltshire, the Seat of Joshua Smith Esq.; Eastwell Park House, in Kent, a Seat of George Finch Hatton Esq.; Grossford House, in East Lothian, North Britain, a Seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Wemyss; Thornes House, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire, the Seat of James Milnes Esq.; Denton Hall, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, the Seat of Sir Henry Ibbetson; Doddington Hall, in Cheshire, the Seat of Sir Thomas Broughton; Claremont, in Surrey, the Seat of Earl of Tyrconnel; Crownest House, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, the Seat of William Walker Esq.; Courteen Hall, in Northamptonshire, the Seat of Sir William Wake; Buckminster Park, in Leicestershire, the Seat of Sir William Manners.
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- English
- French
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Spine and covers slightly scuffed