A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture Veteran science writer George deLucenay

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A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture Veteran science writer George deLucenayThe most sensible book and the most exempt from prejudice that ever was written in that science. Horace Walpole. Born in Stockholm to Scottish parents, taken to London at the age of two and then on to India, William Chambers (1723 96) later studied architecture in Italy and France before finally settling in London. There he gained royal favor as the tutor in architecture of the Prince of Wales (later George III), which proved to be a definite asset