Reading as a Gentleman and an Architect: Sir Roger Pratt’s Library, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 53 (2009): 15-50. (original) (raw)

This article illuminates the changes in English seventeenth-century architectural practice when members of the gentry educated themselves as architectural professionals and as a result several became noted practitioners. The author analyses the rarely examined notes and library of Sir Roger Pratt to explore how a seventeenth-century gentleman both studied and practised architecture literally as both gentleman and architect. Also she considers Pratt's notes chronologically, rather than according to their previous thematic reorganisation by R. T. Gunther (1928)