ABSTRACT
Eighteenth-century building activity inspired a flurry of books, including new types introduced to cater for specific needs. Books available on building and decoration included architectural treatises, notably Isaac Ware’s A Complete Body of Architecture, 1756-7 and William Chambers’ Treatise on Civil Architecture, 1759, much reprinted, with additions by other authors, for example Joseph Gwilt, through to 1862. There were two types of pattern book,1 firstly those by well-known architects of their executed designs, such as James Gibbs’ Book of Architecture, 1728 (see Figure 26).
