'The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam' is reprinted in its entirety, with additional sections on 12 newly discovered built works. The unbuilt works are presented in nine chapters. 1: Public Buildings; 2: Churches; 3: Classical houses; 4: Castle-style houses; 5: Classical estate buildings; 6: Castle-style and Gothic estate buildings; 7: Thatched and timber works; 8: Mausoleums and monuments; 9: Decorative schemes.
* The definitive collection, one complete source of Adam 260
executed and 230 unexecuted works
* Detailed descriptions with photographs, drawings, plans,
elevations and sectional drawings
* Covers works ranging from public buildings and country houses to
estate buildings, monuments to ceilings to aid understanding of the
Adam style and design ideas
Reviews of 'The Complete Works': "There have been two Scottish works that deserve distinction. One is David King's 'Complete Works of Robert and James Adam' which should be on everyone's shelf." John Harris, former curator of the RIBA drawings collection "The author has produced one of those books which is erudite without being pretentious, well informed without being boring; in fact the sort of book that any lover of eighteenth century architecture would relish on his desert island." Dan Cruickshank, Architects Journal "King and his publishers have done a grand job...this is a most useful and handsome volume and should be owned by all those interested in the architecture of the second half of the eighteenth century." James Stevens Curl, Literary Review
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