Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings : for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. : engraved on 38 copper-plates
A 1790 London architectural pattern book by John Soane, published by I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library, offering plans, elevations and sections for garden temples, baths, pavilions and garden seats for pleasure grounds and parks. The plates show a domed circular temple with a swagged frieze, a rotated elevation with arched openings, a pedimented garden front with an urn niche, and a floor plan labelled with a cold bath and a dressing room. A designer could take its crisp hatched line work, coffered domes, and garland-hung friezes as classical garden-building vocabulary.
