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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Title(s):
Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...
Additional Title(s):
Architectural remembrancer.
Published/Created:
London : R. Sayer ..., 1757.
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA997 M67 A73 1757
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: Publisher's advertisement: [2] p. at front.
English short title catalogue, T188105
Archer 213.3
First published in 1751, with title: Architectural remembrancer.
Illustrations by Parr and Henry Roberts; after Robert Morris.
Engraved throughout.
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994,c1990. 566
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800.
Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Early works to 1800.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1757.
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.
Sayer, Robert -- Publisher.
Contributors:
Parr, Remi, 1723- engraver.
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754, ill.
Roberts, Henry, approximately 1710-approximately 1790, engraver.
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