Original designs in architecture : consisting of twenty-seven copper-plates, in folio, which contain plans, elevations, sections ... &c. in the most approved taste : to which are prefixed, a suitable introduction, and a description, explaining the several designs
An 1783 London architectural pattern book by William Thomas, who died in 1800, printed for the author and offered to architects and builders as a set of twenty-seven copper-plates. The four plates shown are measured drawings: a long elevation with a ground plan, a domed end elevation, a cross-section through a multi-storey building, and a monument elevation with a star-shaped plan. A designer could take their clean measured linework, ordered classical facades and the stacked section cutaways as a reference for neoclassical building layouts.
