“A book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments” by James Gibbs
As the title the books says, it is about designs and ornaments. The book starts with an introduction. After the introduction all the plates (images) are described. After more than hundreds description of all plates. The actual plates follow. It has images of different buildings but it always follows up with an explaining picture of how the building is constructed. There are pictures of floor plans and sections. This book is abnormally big (50x30cm) and one illustration takes up one page. It has 333 pages in total.
The author James Gibbs was a scottish architect in the 18th century. He studied architecture in Rome. After his education, worked as an architect in England and Ireland. One of his famous work is the saint Mary le Strand church. His book was published in 1728. The book is a treatise of his work. Its purpose is to have a guidline to his work. This book does not have a lot of contain in terms of text. It is created to understand James Gibbs’ work and find inspiration in it to reconstruct.