The Papers Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Benjamin Henry Latrobe wrote the journals that comprise this volume during a span of years (1799-1820) that marked the most creative and productive period of his career as an architect and engineer.

This two-volume set is a comprehensive catalogue of the architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a key figure in the birth of the architectural profession in the United States. All Latrobe's architectural projects are considered in detail, and each project is illustrated with his surviving drawings. Among the works discussed are the U.S. Capitol, the Bank of Pennsylvania, the Baltimore Cathedral, the Virginia State Penitentiary, the Stephen Decatur house, and numerous other commissions for public and private buildings. The volumes also analyze Latrobe's style of architectural drawing, trace the evolution of his technique, and place his graphic legacy in the contexts of his own architectural work and international currents at the end of the eighteenth century. The Architectural Drawings represents the final publication of the Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an editorial project launched more than two decades ago under the direction of editor-in-chief Edward C. Carter II. The series as a whole also includes volumes on Latrobe's correspondence, journals, engineering drawings, and watercolor views of American scenes.

This volume is devoted to More's principal humanist writings other than his Latin poems and Utopia. It contains the first truly critical edition and a vigorous new English translation of More's four influential Latin letter-treatises on rhetoric, religious and social reform, and the methodological framework of Renaissance humanism. It also contains a entirely new text and translation of More's Historia Richardi Tertii.

Presents letters and papers of architect, civil engineer, naturalist, and traveler, Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), from 1805-1810.