Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves, faced, garden and umbrello'd seats ... many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees : being a taste entirely new : likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them : the whole engraved on twelve copper plates

Decker, Paul · 1759 · London : Printed for the author, and sold by Henry Parker and Elirabeth [sic] Bakewell, opposite Birchin Lane, Cornhill; H. Piers and Partner, at the Bible and Crown, near Chancery-Lane, in Holborn · 19 pictures

Paul Decker's Gothic Architecture Decorated, published in London in 1759 for the author and sold by several booksellers, is a pattern book of garden seats, temples and Gothic ornament for patrons of picturesque taste. Its plates show Gothic fretwork railings, gates and window heads drawn as flat black-line elevations on cream paper, with tracery built from trefoils, quatrefoils, pointed arches and cusped panels that a designer could adapt for lattice screens or ornamental ironwork.

Architecture, Gothic -- Influence -- Pictorial works · Picturesque, The, in architecture -- England -- Pictorial works · Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- England -- Pictorial works · Architecture -- England -- 18th century -- Pictorial works · Fretwork -- Pictorial works

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