Beschreibung:

Over (Charles), Ornamental Architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste, being above fifty intire new designs of plans, sections, elevations, &c. (many of which may be executed with routes of trees) for gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals, &c. containing ... garden seats, both close and open, umbrello's, alcoves, grotto's and grotesque seats, hermitages, triumphal arches, temples, banqueting houses and rooms, 1st edition, printed for Robert Sayer 1758, 54 engraved plates, near-contemporary engraved bookplate of W: Burnett, with the motto 'virescit vulnere virtus' to front pastedown, contemporary blind panelled and decorated full calf, rubbed and a little wear to joints, discreetly restored to foot of spine, 8vo (Qty: 1) Provenance: William Burnett (1762-1839) of Banchory Lodge, Kincardineshire, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty's Army, and was the son of Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys, 6th Baronette of Crathes. According to a pencil note on the front endpaper dated 1935, this copy is from the 'Bentinck Sale'. Berlin Katalog 3418; Harris, 606. While the majority of Over's designs are variations on Halfpenny's works, there are novelties such as the 'umbrella seat in the Indian manner', apparently the first use of the umbrella as a functional structure. This work also influenced William Wrighte's Grotesque Architecture of 1767, and contributed to the popularity of the Chinese style in Britain and Europe in the later 18th century.