Essays on Gothic architecture / by the Rev. T. Warton, Rev. J. Bentham, Captain Grose, and the Rev. J. Milner. (With a letter to the publisher.) ; Illustrated with twelve plates of ornaments &c. selected from ancient buildings; calculated to exhibit the various styles of different periods.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
18/500
Edition
The second edition. To which is added a list of the cathedrals of England, with their dimensions: also two new plates. [2-line quotation from Virgil as 1st ed.]
Imprint
London: Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Holborn, for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn, 1802
Physical Description
[3], *iv-*vi, [iii]-xxiii, [1], 133, [4], *138-*154, [135]-150, [2] p., 12 leaves of plates (2 folded): illus.; 242 mm.
General Note
The Preface is signed J.T. [i.e. J. Taylor]. 'A list of cathedrals' (p. [*136]-*154) inserted before p. [135]. Advertisements on the final leaf. Plate [1] is the frontispiece.
The plates are as in the first edition except for the addition pf plates 11 and 12 which are interior views of Durham Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.
References
Fowler, 439
Royal Institute of British Architects, Early printed books, 2 (1995), no. 1002.
Provenance
The front pastedown carries an armorial bookplate with the name 'William Anthony Glynn', and above the bookplate the owner's signature in black ink, ' W A Glynn'.
On recto of front flyleaf is the signature in blue ink, 'Diana Burgess'.
Binding Note
Quarter brown leather binding with marbled boards; black leather label on spine lettered in gilt, 'Essays / On / Architecture'.
Also bound in this volume, Rudiments of ancient architecture. - London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1794. (See 23/967)
Subject
Architecture England - Architecture, Gothic England - Cathedrals England