Plans, Elevations, And Sections, Of Buildings Public and Private, Executed In Various Parts Of England, &c. Including The New Custom-House, London, With Plans, Details, And Descriptions. Engraved On Fifty-Nine Plates. By David Laing, F.S.A. Architect And Surveyor To The Board Of Customs, &c.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

04/3195

Author

David Laing

Imprint

London :: Printed By Bensley And Sons, Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street; And Published By J. Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holborn., M DCCC XVIII.

Physical Description

[10], xiv, [2], 44 p., 57 pl.: illus.; 55 cm. (Folio.)

[Half-title, t.p., dedic.] - List Of Subscribers - Introduction - [Dedic. of Pt.1] - Description Of The New Custom-House ... - Explanation Of The Plates ... - Part The Second; Consisting Of Private And Miscellaneous Designs ... - Of The Rebuilding Of The Church Of St. Dunstan In The East - Cursory Hints On Planting ...; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

Engravers include James Davis, Isaac Taylor, William Woolnoth, John Roffe, R. Roffe, Joseph Skelton.

The work is dedicated by the author to George, Prince of Wales (afterwards King George IV).

References

RIBA, Early printed, 2 (1995), 1716; J. Archer, Literature of British domestic (1985), 171.

J.M. Crook, 'The custom house scandal', in Architectural history, 6 (1963), p.91-102.

Provenance

Presented by the author in 1818; acknowledged RA Council Minutes, V, 457.

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