Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Perspective Views Of The Gardens And Buildings At Kew in Surry, The Seat of Her Royal Highness The Princess Dowager of Wales. By William Chambers, member Of the Imperial Academy of Arts at Florence, and of the Royal Academy of Architecture at Paris, Architect To the King, and to Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.
London,: Printed by J. Haberkorn, in Grafton Street, St. Anne's Soho; Published for the Author, And to be had at his House in Poland Street; Likewise of A. Millar, D. Wilson, and T. Becket, all in the Strand; of R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; R. Sayer in Fleet-Street, A. Webley in Holborn, J. Walter at Charing-Cross, and Dorothy Mercier at the Golden Ball, Windmill Street, Golden Square., MDCCLXIII.
Physical Description
[iv], 8 p., [43] pl. (3 dble.); 538 mm. (Folio).
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - A Description Of The Plates; Directions to the Binder - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The plates are signed by the draughtsmen Smeaton (no.16), Jos. Kirby (36, 41, 42), T. Marlow (37), Wm. Marlow (38, 43) and T. Sandby (39, 40); by the architects W. Kent (no.3), W. Chambers (4-8, 10-15, 17-27, 29-33, 35) and J. Heny. Muntz (28); plates 1, 2, 9 and 34 have no indication of their draughtsmen. The plates are signed by the engravers, Francis Patton, J. Muller, Edward Rooker, Charles Grignion, Tobias Miller, James Basire, J. Noual, William Woollett, Thomas Major and Paul Sandby.
The work is dedicated by William Chambers to Augusta, Princess Dowager of Wales.
References
ESTC, T42440, N38634
National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard, II (1998), 14.
Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 1 (1994), no. 597.
E. Harris and N. Savage, British Architectural Books (1990), 121.
Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 87, p.71-2.
Provenance
Acquired by 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Binding Note
18th-century mottled calf, rebacked, retaining red and black spine-labels, lettered, 'Chambers's Works Vol II'. Bound with: 'Designs Of Chinese Buildings ... By Mr. Chambers' (1757). [i.e. 03/2521]