Grotesque Architecture, Or Rural Amusement; Consisting Of Plans, Elevation, And Sections for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, chinese, gothic and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, 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 new designs, with scales to each. To which is added an explanation, with the method of executing them. ... A new edition

London: I. and J. Taylor, 1790. New Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards. Very good. 14 pages in text. 24 x 14.5 cm. Leaf after text, advert by publisher for Books on Architecture. ARCHER 358.5. "The plans reveal Wrighte's Concern for Palladian principle of proportion and symmetry. Typical examples are composed of squares, circles, and other regular figures; the hut in Plate 1 is square in plan, 10 feet 9 inches on a side, and the plan of the mosque in Plate 22 consists of a circle, 20 feet in diameter, plus four squares, eight feet on a side, attached symmetrically to the perimeter of the circle." Archer also notes Wrighte was the first to publish a scene (frontispiece) in a book of architectural designs -- showing specific designs set into natural surroundings in a consciously artful way. Few worm holes in margins, spine dried, extremity rubbing.