A description of Bath : wherein the antiquity of the city, as well as the eminence of its founder, its magnitude, situation, soil, mineral waters, and physical plants, its British works, and the Grecian ornaments with which they were adorned, its devastations and restorations in the days of the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, with its new buildings, baths, conduits, hospitals, places of worship, and other public edifices, it gates, bridges, walks, and streets, &c., are respectively treated of : the gods, places of worship, religion, and learning of the ancient Britons occasionally considered : and the limits of the city in its present state, its government, trade, and amusements severally pointed out ... : together with proper plans and elevations from twenty-two copper-plates
A description of Bath, published in London in 1765 by printers W. Bathoe and T. Lownds, is an architectural and historical account of the city by John Wood, written for readers interested in its antiquity and new buildings. Its plates are measured elevations of Bath buildings, drawn in fine engraved line with scale bars, showing façades with pilasters, pediments, urns and rusticated bases that a designer could use as study material for classical proportion and window rhythm.
