Plans Elevations Sections Perspective Views by William Chambers (6 results)
Language: English
Published by Gregg, Farnborough 1966
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile edition. Illustrated throughout, folding plates etc. Folio. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered, some gentle fading and rubbing, contents very good. From the Gregg Press - originally published 1763. A large item, will cost extra to post/ship, especiall…y if abroad.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Farnborough, Hants. : Gregg 1966
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Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Gut. Reprint from ed. London 1763. 8 p., 24 pl. ; ill. ; 50,5 x 36,5 cm. Guter Zustand. 50,5 x 36,5 cm. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempeln und Signatur auf Einband. Einband leicht lichtrandig. Sonst Seiten sauber. / Good. 50,5 x 36,5 cm. Ex-library with usual markings. Cover slightly faded. Clean…pages. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1700.
Published by Gregg, Farnbnorough 1966
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- First Edition
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. From an academic library with the usual stamps etc. This item is heavy and will attract postal surcharges.
Published by Farnborough, Gregg, 1966. 1966
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circa 50,5 x 36,5 cm. Title, 2 ff., 8 pp., 24 plates, some folding Original red cloth Complete facsimile reprint in very large format. - Just the bottom of the spine a little bumped, else fine, clean.
Published by Farnborough Gregg Press Ltd 1966
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Hardcover. Condition: Gut. Gebunden in rote OLwd., 50,5 x 36,5 cm, vom Einband zwei Ecken bestossen auf den Buchblock durchgehend, ansonsten altersgemäß guter Zustand, two edges of cover damaged, apart from that age-appropriate good condition, 1520 gr.
More imagesPublished by printed by J. Haberkorn, published for the Author [et al.], London 1763
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Folio. (20 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches). Ad 1: iv, 8 pp. (including dedication to Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales). With 43 engraved plates and plans (3 folding), by E. Rooker, Wm. Woollett, Charles Grignion, Paul Sandby, T. Miller, James Basirer, Ja. Noval, F. Patton after William Kent, Chambers, Smeaton, Paul Sandby, Cipriani et al…. [Together with:] Desseins des Edifices, Meubles, Habits, Machines et Ustenciles des Chinois: Graves Sur Les Originaux dessines a la Chine: Auxquels est ajoutee Une Description de leurs Temples, de leurs Maisons, de leurs Jardins, &c Londres/London: De L'impremerie De J. Haberkorn, Dans Gerrard Street; se vend chez L'auteur, a Cote du Caffe de Tom en Russel Street. Covent Garden; and chez A. Millar and J. Nourse, Libraries dans le Strand, 1757. Ad 2: [8], 19, [1] pp. With 21 engraved plates. Contemporary German green morocco, elaborately gilt, wide outer border richly gilt, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece, within green cloth slipcase. Spectacular volume of the highest interest for historians of eighteenth-century landscape architecture and architecture, containing the two most important works by Sir William Chambers, both in First Edition. Here in a fine contemporary morocco binding. The first work a sensational record of the Kew Gardens in London, Chambers' greatest architectural achievement, and a monument of landscape architecture which incorporated Chinese garden design. Chambers (1726-1796) designed more than 25 buildings for Kew, including a Mosque, a Palladian bridge, a menagerie and the Great Stove, all of which have long since disappeared. Still standing are the Orangery, Ruined Arch, the Temple of Bellona, the Temple of Aeolus, and his most famous building at Kew: the Pagoda. One of Kew's most astonishing features, the Pagoda was completed in 1762 for Princess Augusta, George III's mother, who actually founded the botanic garden at Kew. The 10-story octagonal building reaches a height of nearly 50 meters. The present volume contains the highly important full-page engraved plates of the gardens as it was originally intended. Kew Gardens was drastically altered during the nineteenth century by William Nesfield; thus the present volume is of great importance. The fashion for Chinese design in decorative architecture was very much influenced by Chambers, who was employed as architect by Princess Augusta as she continued the creation of Kew Gardens after the death of her husband, Prince Frederick, in 1751. Chambers' Desseins des Edifices (see below) appeared in 1757, the same year that work began on the Pagoda. His Plans, Elevations, Sections and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew was issued in 1763, just after the Pagoda had been completed. Chambers wrote: "All the architectural designs were done by me with the greatest care and accuracy, the figures by Signor Cipriani, and the views by Messieurs Kirby, Thomas Sandby, and Marlow, all of them excellent draughtsmen. The whole work is engraved by the most eminent of our Artists. the whole of this very expensive publication has been carried without the least charge to me; the work having been undertaken by Royal Command, and nobly paid for by the Royal Bounty" (Description of the Plates, pp. 7-8). These amazing views of Kew Gardens absolutely must be seen to be fully appreciated. The second work a First Edition in French, published simultaneously with the English Edition, of Sir William Chambers' first book, which was "the first to examine Chinese buildings as architecture" (Eileen Harris). Blanche Henrey writes: "While in Canton, Chambers made some sketches of Chinese architecture and costume which were later engraved and published in 1757 in his first book, entitled Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses. The work includes an account 'On the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese' (pp. 14-19)." Harris claims that account "attracted more attention than any other part of the Designs. It was reprinted in its entirety.
