OVERTON, Thomas Collins.

by Thomas Collins Overton

£4,950 · Offered by Sokol Books

.This second edition was given a more commercially attractive title and was smaller than the first of the same year, intended to be a routine pattern book for clients to refer to (Harris 338). It contains pastiches of Palladian, Gibbsian, Batty Langley gothick and generalised antique elements (Harris 338) of architectural designs including the design for a triangular villa belonging to James Maynard (pl.41). It was built in 1766 on the edge of a hill, which commands a fine prospect of the country as far as Bath on one side, and as far as Tetbury on the other (pp.16). He also provides elements of interior design, with each corner of an equilateral summer house containing a particular feature, such as a staircase, closet, or chimney.. . ..The text describes each of the 50 plates, followed by the corresponding illustrations, mostly consisting of facades, often accompanied by a floorplan. These descriptions specify the main functions of each building, and include summer houses, temples, keepers lodges, and castle-like villas, as well as possible building materials and ideas for decorative details, for instance the Apollo Belvedere, as seen in plate 18. All the designs are either symmetrical or centrally planned, adhering to classical ideals of proportion and symmetry, repopularised in the Palladian style, which aimed to reinterpret ancient architecture for contemporary usage.. . ..The frontispiece depicts an obelisk and rectilinear temple set in countryside, a rotunda emerging in

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