The country gentleman's pocket companion, and builder's assistant, for rural decorative architecture : containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, temples, summer-houses, lodges, huts, grotto's, &c. in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste, with proper directions annexed : also the exact estimate of their several amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable : correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates
A 1753 London pattern book by William and John Halfpenny, engraved by Remi Parr and sold by Robert Sayer, offering thirty-two costed designs for garden alcoves, temples, huts and grottoes to landowners building cheap ornaments. The copper plates show small symmetrical pavilions in Classical, Gothick and Chinese dress, flanked by feathery trees, with plans drawn in flat perspective below.
