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Creator:
Wallis, N
Title(s):
The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.
Edition:
New edition.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, [1773]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [16] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
TS835 W35 1773
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785. 900
Archer 338.1
English short title catalogue, T117661
Plates dated 6 Nov. 1773
Harris gives date of publication as [1773]. This edition was evidently published by 1774 as the Taylor advertisement with it includes William Pain's 'Practical Builder' published in 1774.
Includes designs for moldings, arches, doors, gates, rails, bridges, a 'Termination for a Vista,' and 13 garden temples.
BAC: Bound with: Designs in architecture / by John Soane. London : I. Taylor, 1778.
BAC: Includes publisher's advertisement: p. [3]-[4] at front.
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800.
Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Gothic -- Decoration and ornament.
Carpentry -- Early works to 1800.
Engraving -- Specimens -- [1773].
Field, B. -- Autograph.
Taylor, I. -- Publisher.
Temples -- Designs and plans.
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