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Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780. An Abridgement of Architecture, 1743.

Title: An Abridgement of Architecture, 1743.

The manuscript is an attempt by the youthful Blackstone to summarize all knowledge about architecture. The title page notes that his work is extracted chiefly from treatises by Henry Wotton, Roland Fréart, John Evelyn, James Gibbs and William Chambers. The text is divided systematically into 37 chapters, the relationship of each to all the others being shown in a diagram, "Analysis of the Abridgement," following the title page. This manuscript appears to represent a first complete draft (with numerous insertions and deletions). A fuller version of the study entitled "Elements of Architecture" (and dating from ca. 1747) exists in the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, mss. 333. In both cases, the scope and organization closely parallel the methods Blackstone employed in his later "Commentaries on the Laws of England." Included is a complete typescript of the text (dated 1910, apparently one of two made), commissioned by Archie Kirkman Lloyd, a previous owner of the manuscript. A folder contains research and provenance notes written by A.K. Lloyd's son, R.A. Lloyd, a page from a journal which mentions the sale of the Blackstone manuscript, receipts dated 1904 from the bookseller who sold the manuscript, and a printed portrait of Blackstone.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (51 leaves) & typescript copy (157 sheets), 1 folder of 8 items + (4 microfilm copies: master negaive, print negative and two use copies)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84198433 View

Vulliamy, Lewis, 1791-1871. Architectural designs, ca. 1835.

Title: Architectural designs, ca. 1835.

Collection includes four designs for a Neoclassical church (four drawings with three elevations and two sections) and two for a chapel (one elevation and one perspective). The chapel has lettering on the frieze: "Erected Anno Domini MDCCCXXV St. George." Neither project was constructed. Another drawing is a plan of James Gibbs's St. Martin in the Fields. With a drawing inscribed "Perspective View of a Design for one of the New Metropolitan Churches of AD 1837," in a Gothic revival style.

ArchivalResource: 8 sheets.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79925138 View

Gosden, Thomas, 1780-1843,. [Gravestone for James Gibbs] [graphic] / Gosden.

Title: [Gravestone for James Gibbs] [graphic] / Gosden. [between 1780 and 1843.]

Gravestone inscribed "Underneath lye the remains of James Gibbs Esqr. whose skill in architecture appears by his principal works as well as the buildings directed by him, among other legacys and charitys he left one hundred pounds towards enlarging this church. He died August the 5th 1754, aged 71 years".

ArchivalResource: 1 drawing : ink and watercolour ; 173 x 197 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500565580 View