A Treatise On Civil Architecture, In Which The Principles of that Art are laid down, and Illustrated by a great Number of Plates, Accurately Designed, and Elegantly Engraved by the best Hands. By William Chambers, Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, and Architect toTheir Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and Princess Dowager of Wales. -
London,: Printed for the Author, by J. Haberkorn. To be had at the Author's House in Poland-Street, near Broad-Street, Soho; likewise of A. Millar, J. Nourse, Wilson and Durham, all in the Strand, T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, J. and R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, R. Sayer in Fleet-Street, Piers and Webley near Chancery-Lane, Holborn, and J. Gretton, in Old-Bond-Street., M DCC LIX.
Physical Description
[6], iv, 85, [1] p., [50] pl.; 552 mm. (Broadsheet.)
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - Subscribers - Preface - [Text and pl. [1-34]] - Directions to the Binder; Errata - [Plates [35-50]].
Responsibility Note
Plate [8] is unsigned; plate [43] is signed by engraver only. Most plates are signed as drawn by W. Chambers, eight by J. Gandon, one by J.B. Cipriani; and as engraved by P. Mazell, P. Fourdrinier, F. Patton, E. Rooker, C. Grignion, T. Miller or J. Fougeron. The woodcut tailpiece is signed by 'F.H.'
The work is dedicated by William Chambers to John, Earl of Bute.
References
ESTC, T51636
National Gallery of Art (Washington), Mark J. Millard Architectural, 2 (1998), no. 13, p.71-6.
Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 1 (1994), no. 598, p.343-4
E. Harris and N. Savage, British Architectural Books (1990), no. 122, p.156-161
J. Archer, Literature of British domestic architecture (1985), 40.1.
Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961, repr. 1991), no. 86, p.70-1.
M. Snodin and J. Harris, Sir William Chambers (1996).
Reproductions
An online reproduction was made in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was made in 1986 (Woodbridge: CT Research Publications Inc.).
Binding Note
19th-century half brown morocco, brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Civil Architecture Chambers', 'R.A.' and '1759'.
Subject
Architecture - Theory
Architecture, British - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Manuals - Treatises - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century