Various & valuable sketches and designs of buildings
By: by Tho: Wright
Contributors: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Published: 1746
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Landscape architecture; Early works to 1800; Architecture; History
Other titles: Phillipps ms. (no. 13448*, 13451); Wright's architectural designs.
Notes: Drawings of various dimensions depicting garden structures, country houses and other buildings.

Title from recto of 1st leaf.

Spine title. Wright's architectural designs.

Previously owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), endpaper inscribed: "Phillipps MS / 13448* / and / 13451 / (vol 1)." This ms. appeared as lot 1166 (2 vols.) in the sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 6-11, 1898.  Purchased 1967.

Inventoried in: The Thomas Wright sketchbook in the Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University : a provisional catalogue / compiled by Michael J. McCarthy, October 1971 (unpublished typescript)

Described in: The Phillipps manuscripts : Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps. London : Holland Press, [c1968] -- Catalogue of a further portion of the famous collection ... of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps ... which will be sold by auction. [London] : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1898 -- Arbours & grottos : a facsimile of the two parts of "Universal architecture" (1755 and 1758) / Thomas Wright ; with a catalogue of Wright's works in architecture and garden design by Eileen Harris. London : Scolar Press, 1979.

Recent binding of paper-covered boards with morocco back and corners. Original calf-backed boards preserved in separate portfolio.  Original front endpaper transferred to new binding.