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Grotesque architecture, or, Rural amusement : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, Moresque pavillions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c., many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees : the whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs, beautifully engraved on copper plates, with scales to each : to which is added a full explanation, in letter press, and the true method of executing them (1767)

Wrighte, William, Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, Thornthwaite, A., active 18th century, Webley, Henry · London : Printed for Henry Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane · leaf 43

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