Bøger af William Chambers

With traits of their origin, character and manners. These pages are full of curious anecdotes of the Scottish gypsies, told in a very entertaining fashion. The anecdotes fully display the gypsies' singular propensities, when excited by lawless passions, or private animosities. Although the authorities are not annexed to these anecdotes, they may be depended on as authentic, as those which are not original are selected and arranged from various periodical publications, and the rest from popular tradition.

Sir William Chambers (1722-96), architect and furniture designer, wished to increase his status in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. His Treatise, annotated and republished in two volumes in 1825 by the architect Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863), is regarded as one of the standard English texts on classical architecture.