Essays of the London Architectural Society. With four plates. [Part the second.] Published by order.

London Architectural Society

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/4079

Author

Imprint

London: Sold by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn, 1808 [1810]

Physical Description

2 parts; 235 mm.

General Note

Part one, published 1808: [4], xii, 139, [1] p., 4 engraved plates. Includes: 'Rules of the London Architectural Society', p. vii-xii; 'List of the Members of the London Architectural Society', p. xiii. Four essays: On modern architecture, by Edmund Aikin, p. 1-20; On the rise and progress of Gothic architecture, by Samuel Beazley, Jr, p. 21-96; On the situations and accompaniments of villas, by Joseph Woods, Jr, p. 97-124 (with three accompanying plates drawn by I. Woods and etched by J. C. Smith); On dilapidations, by Joseph Woods, Jr. (drawn by J. Woods), p. 125-139. Printer statement bottom of page 139, 'Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis, No. 75, Great Queen Street.'

Part two, published 1810: [2], ii, 189, [3] p., 3 engraved plates. Includes four essays: On modern theories of taste, by Joseph Woods, Jr, p. 1-117; On bridge building, by James Savage, p. 119-167 (with three accompanying plates); On foundations. Part II, by James Elmes (with one accompanying plate), p. 169-189. Printer statement bottom of page 189, 'Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.'

Provenance

Inscribed in ink on recto of a front loose endpaper, 'From the Architectural Society, - to the Royal Academy' (see RA Council Minutes, IV, 40 (20 Feb. 1808).

Binding Note

Spine lettered in gold on red label, 'Essays of the Architectural Society.' and 'R.A.' and '1808-10.'

Subject

Architecture, Architecture England

Contributors

Edmund Aikin, contributor
Samuel Beazley, contributor
Joseph Woods, contributor, draughtsman
James Savage, contributor
James Elmes, contributor
Joseph Clarendon Smith, engraver
Josiah Taylor, publisher/bookseller
Cox, Son and Baylis (London), printer