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Author: William MasonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An Heroic epistle, to Sir William Chambers ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes, chiefly extracted from that elaborate performance. [In verse. By William Mason.]
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Author: William MasonAn Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers ...
Author: William MasonPublisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight, ... Author of a Late Dissertation on Oriental Gardening. Enriched with Explanatory Notes, Chiefly Extracted from that Elaborate Performance. The Ninth Edition
Author: William MasonA Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight, Comptroller General of His Majesty's Works, and Author of a Late Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
Author: William MasonPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
An heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight ... author of a late dissertation on oriental gardening. Enriched with explanatory notes ... The second edition. [By W. Mason.]
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Author: William MasonThe Poetical Works of the Author of the Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers [i.e. William Mason]. [Edited by John Almon.]
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Author: William MasonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers ... The thirteenth edition. [By W. Mason.]
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Author: William MasonPlace-making for the Imagination: Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
Author: Marion HarneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317080505
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This 'man of taste' created private resonances, pleasure and entertainment - a collusion of the historic, the visual and the sensory. Above all, it expresses the inseparable integration of house and setting, and of the architecture with the collection, all specific to one individual, a unity that is relevant today to all architects, landscape designers and garden and country house enthusiasts. Avoiding the straightforward architectural description of previous texts, this beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic villa and associated landscape to be inspired by theories that stimulate 'The Pleasures of the Imagination' articulated in the series of essays by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) published in the Spectator (1712). Linked to this argument, it proposes that the concepts behind the designs for Strawberry Hill are not based around architectural precedent but around eighteenth-century aesthetics theories, antiquarianism and matters of 'Taste'. Using architectural quotations from Gothic tombs, Walpole expresses the mythical idea that it was based on monastic foundations with visual links to significant historical figures and events in English history. The book explains for the first time the reasons for its creation, which have never been adequately explored or fully understood in previous publications. The book develops an argument that Walpole was the first to define theories on Gothic architecture in his Anecdotes of Painting (1762-71). Similarly innovative, The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening (1780) is one of the first to attempt a history and theory of gardening. The research uniquely evaluates how these theories found expression at Strawberry Hill. This reassessment of the villa and its associated l
The Library of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Edwin WolfPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692573
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf's death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin's library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.