Architecture.- Sharpe (Edmund) [Original manuscript] Supplement to "Architectural Parallels" Containing Full-sized Mouldings, containing the full-sized mouldings of the Abbey Churches: Furness, Roche, Byland, Hexham, Jervaulx, Whitby, Fountains, Netley, Rievaulx, Bridlington, Tintern, St. Mary’s, York, Guisborough, Howden, and Selby, manuscript title and contents, comprising 59 manuscript watercolour wash outline drawings, pencil under-drawing and annotations, lacking drawing for plate 20, all but 10 on wove paper, the others on tracing tipped onto wove paper support, each sheet approx. 550 x 425 mm (21 1/2 x 16 3/4 in), handling creases, surface dirt and finger-soiling throughout, some spotting and repaired tears, without covers, presented in modern cloth portfolio, [circa 1848]; together with a disbound copy of Sharpe's 'Architectural Parallels...', folio, 1848; and another unrelated, folio (3)*** The present drawings were first outlined in pencil before an ink line was added to differentiate the edge of each of the mouldings, these were then finished with a coloured wash in order to fill out the image. These drawings where doubtless transferred to the lithograph plates at which stage the lithographs were supplied with letterpress. It is quite possible a number of the pencil drawings were made in situ as Sharpe was adept at using the the Robert Willis’ newly invented Cymagraph. With some practice and dexterity mouldings could for the first time be accurately reproduced, Sharpe had improved the design of the instrument and was clearly the first person to provide accurate drawings of the major ecclesiastical building in a printed work. It was somewhat fortuitous that the instrument was available at the time he was planning his Architectural Parallels.