WRIGHTE (William). 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 new designs with Scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with method of executing them.1770

London: Printed for I. Taylor, New edition, 8vo (232 x 130 mm), 13, 3 (publishers adverts)pp., engraved frontispiece and 28 engraved plates, frontispiece and title page lightly soiled and browned but text and plates generally clean, contemporary ink inscription "... Warminster" on front pastedown partly erased, pencil sketches on front free endpaper, cont. calf, rubbed, rebacked, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. "William Wrighte's collection of grotesque follies — mosques, hermitages and the like, built of rustic materials, moss, branches, roots, thatch, even wool — had far greater impact, being the only pattern-book on the subject that was readily available and easily manageable".—Harris. Harris, 953; Archer, 358.3.