Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments : also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. ... : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto
A pattern book of house and building designs by Robert Morris, engraved by Remi Parr and published in London in 1755 for builders, gentlemen clients and country landowners. Each of the fifty plates pairs a line elevation with a hatched floor plan, covering farmhouses, villas, churches, bridges and garden buildings, and offers designers scale bars, pediment and column fronts, and blackened wall plans usable as flat graphic pattern.
