Sketches in Architecture,
Dearn, (Thomas Downes Wilmot).
Consisting of Original Designs for Public & Private Buildings.
16 uncoloured aquatint plates.
First Edition. 4to. [30]ff. Uncut. Bound in later marbled boards (the sewing partly broken).
London: [by Thomas Collins for] John Cawthorn, for the Author, [1806]
Archer 61.1. From the library of John Piper.
Some light damp-staining at the head, and the uncut margins a little dusty. Priced £1.5s. in boards.
Not to be confused with Dearn's Sketches in Architecture... for Cottages and Rural Dwellings , of 1807. The Preface is dated 1806. On the title-page Dearn styles himself as "Architect to His Royal Highness The Duke of Clarence", but admits in the Preface that he was "about to embark" on the profession of architecture. The major designs include a naval monument at Greenwich, a national mausoleum, a pyramidal cemetery chapel, a cenotaph and a billiards room, along with five picturesque lodges and cottages, all surrounded by the appropriate "Natural" scenery.
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