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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1808. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... HINTS ON ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. I T is greatly to be regretted that the Architectural work which had been planned by Gray and Mason, should never have been brought to perfection ; that work, it seems, would have been composed of a series of drawings illustrative of English Architecture, in all the most remarkable periods of its progress, and of observations upon those drawings, tending to establish certain criteria, by which the age of any building in Britain, or of the patts of such building, might readily have been determined with accuracy.* * See Mason's Edition of the Poems of Gray, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings, vol. iv. p. 145, &c. (1778). A treatise of a similar kind, although much inferior to that which might have been expected from the united talents and skill of Gray and Mason, would doubtless be highly acceptable, and could not but greatly facilitate the acquisition of architectural knowledge, which is now to be sought for in a variety of unconnected works, many of which are certainly performances of great and deserved reputation, but from which, as they commonly illustrate only some particular building, and as they frequently abound with theoretical enquiry, it is by no means easy to select in abundance such remarks as may assist us in forming a general system of English Architecture. From having experienced some inconvenience from the want of such a manual as that of which I have just been speaking, I have endeavoured to sketch out from the writings of others, and from the observations which I have been able to make myself, a general view of those classes into which the structures, or remains of structures, in this Island, may be conveniently distributed; and under each of these divisions I have noticed, where necessary, the kinds of buildings, &...
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