Sketches of old Exeter, with letter press
A late nineteenth-century architectural sketchbook of Exeter, England, produced by the architect James Crocker and printed in London in 1886 for readers interested in the city's old buildings. The plates are pen-and-ink drawings of timber-framed and gabled houses, many shown rotated on the page, with a few later brick street fronts beside them; a designer could take their hatched line work, dense cross-hatched shadows and jumbled rooflines as a model for historic townscape illustration.
