Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A compleat body of architecture: wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts. Embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto; augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters. Compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly.

Accession number
PML 53045
Creator
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.
Published
London : R. Sayer, 1773.
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1962.
Notes
4 p. at end: Books of Architecture, ornaments, etc., printed for Robert Sayer, map and print seller.
References: Not in Brit. Museum, Brunet, Guilmard, Thieme-Becker.
The plates are dated 1769-70; 1-3 omitted in numbering.
First published in 1770 under title: Ornamental architecture.
Plates dated 1769 and 1770.
Description
[3] l. : 102 (i.e. 99) plates ; 44 cm
Provenance
Mrs. J.P. Morgan's collection.
Binding
1/2 tan morocco in 1/2 tan morocco folding box by C.M. Ullman.
Classification
Department