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Author: Warton, Rev.T. (and others)
Title: 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 ten plates of ornaments, &., selected from ancient buildings ; calculated to exhibit the various styles of different periods.
Publication: London, for J.Taylor 1800.
Price: £240
Reference: 05396
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8vo. xxiii + (1) + 149 + (1)pp, 10 engraved plates including folding frontispiece. Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spine. Frontispiece slightly browned and a little spotting elsewhere.
The true first edition of this useful compilation bringing together the views of four scholars on the origins and development of Gothic architecture in England. For a discussion of the book's complicated printing history see BAL Early Printed Books Catalogue nos. 1001-3 (our copy conforms to the British Architectural Library's copy of the first edition as there described). Fowler 438.