Ancient Architecture Restored
Batty & Thomas Langley.
1742.
1747.
The Chimney Pieces and a Few Selected Engravings.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011254262
"All that his books achieved, has been to teach carpenters to
massacre that venerable species, and to give occasion to those who know nothing
of the matter, and who mistake his clumsy efforts for real imitations, to
censure the productions of our ancestors, whose bold and beautiful fabrics Sir
Christopher Wren viewed and reviewed with astonishment, and never mentioned
without esteem". (Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, 1798)
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