“ Rural Architecture in the Gothic Taste (1752) ; Chinese and Gothic Architecture Properly Ornamented (1752) ; and Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste (1750–1752) . These four books were produced in collaboration with John Halfpenny, who is said to have been his son. New Designs for Chinese Temples is a volume of some significance in the history of furniture, since, having been published some years before the books of Thomas Chippendale and Sir Thomas Chambers, it disproves the statement so often made that those designers introduced the Chinese taste into this country. ”