Grotesque architecture; or, rural amusement / consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them.

A compendium of twenty-eight measured designs presenting plans, elevations, and sections for ornamental garden structures, including rustic huts, summer and winter hermitages, Chinese and Gothic grottoes, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, seats, and greenhouses. Each plate supplies dimensions and construction notes that recommend simple materials and finishes—flints, irregular stones, trunks, roots, shells, thatch, and moss—and suggest decorative incrustations, shell-work, and water features. Accompanying explanations describe siting, proportions, and practical methods for executing grotto and rustic features so they mimic natural forms and integrate with landscape elements such as streams, copses, and terraces.