Vitruvius Scoticus
Subtitle: being a collection of plans, elevations, and sections of public buildings, noblemen's and gentlemen's houses in Scotland
By: principally from the designs of the late William Adam ...
Publisher: printed for Adam Black and J. & J. Robertson, Edinburgh, T. Underwood, and J. Taylor, London
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Architecture; Designs and plans
Notes: Dating of this work is problematic for a discussion see Harris, British Architectural Books and Writers, 1556-1785.

Library's copy incomplete: t.--p. inserted in facsim., 1st 5 p. lacking as are the following plates: 1, 5, 5 bis, 19 bis, 20 bis, 23, 30 bis, 41, 107 bis, 108 bis, 139 bis, 146-148, 156, 157, 160.

"The following plans, drawn by the late William Adam ... were engraved at his expence ... with a view to publication. A few complete sets having come into the publisher's hands, he now respectfully offers them to the public."--p. 5, absent from Library's copy.

Plate 53 is evidently plate 51 renumbered.

Mansell 3:287.

Archer, J. Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842 2.1.

BM 1:916.