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The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste : calculated for the ornamenting of parks, forests, woods, gardens, canals, eminences, extensive views, mounts, vistos, islands, &c. : together with a full explanation, in letter press, to each design, and exact scales for measurement

Overton, Thomas Collins, Overton, Thomas Collins. Original designs of temples and other ornamental buildings for parks and gardens, Pranker, Robert, Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807 · 1774 · London : Printed for I. Taylor, in Holborn, near Chancery Lane · 36 pictures

A 1774 London pattern book printed for I. Taylor in Holborn, offering fifty designs of garden temples and follies in Greek, Roman and Gothic taste, for landowners and gardeners laying out parks and pleasure grounds. The engraved elevations and sections show small domed pavilions, pointed-arch windows and classical arcades with carved heads, giving a designer ready models for garden buildings and their proportions.

Garden structures · Follies (Architecture) · Pavilions

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