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

Contributors

Thomas Warton, contributor
James Bentham, contributor
Francis Grose, contributor
John Milner, contributor
Joshua Taylor, contributor, publisher/bookseller
Samuel Gosnell, printer