The history of architectural design during the sixteenth century cannot, therefore, be written round the names of great men in England as it can in Italy, and in a less degree in France. Those who do most towards giving character to a building are those who determine its plan and general outlines; and the men who did this to our English houses were the surveyors. Of these John Thorpe is the only one about whom anything much is known; but enough is known to place him in a high rank as a designer. There must have been many others, but their names have disappeared and their fame has evaporated. A list of all those who could be considered architects has been drawn up by Mr. Wyatt Papworth,[36] but the names of those prior to Inigo Jones include patrons, masons, and carpenters as well as surveyors, and the task still remains to assign to each his proper share in the production of the architecture of his day. This architecture was not the work of a single class of men, but resulted from the joint efforts of many minds directing many different tools. High and low, rich and poor, gentle and simple, cultured and uncultured, all combined to the same end, and the authors of the architectural books of the period knew their business when they appealed on their title-pages to so many different artificers. [36] _The Renaissance and Italian Styles of Architecture in Great Britain_, 1883. A LIST OF SELECTED WORKS ON EARLY RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND. I. WORKS ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE TUDOR PERIOD, &c. DOLLMAN (F. T.).--An Analysis of Ancient Domestic Architecture in Great Britain. 2 vols. 4to. 1864. HUNT (T. F.).--Exemplars of Tudor Architecture. 8vo. 1836. LAMB (E. B.).--Studies of Ancient Domestic Architecture. 4to. 1846. PUGIN (A.).--Specimens of Gothic Architecture in England. 2 vols. 4to. 1821. PUGIN (A. and A. W.).--Examples of Gothic Architecture in England. 3 vols. 4to. 1831. TURNER (T. H.) and PARKER (J. H.).--Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England during the Middle Ages. 3 vols. 8vo. 1859-1877. II. GENERAL WORKS ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PERIOD; ALSO BOOKS OF REFERENCE, &c. ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SKETCH BOOK, THE. Old Series. 12 vols. Folio. 1868-1880. New Series. 12 vols. Folio. 1881-1892. Third Series. Folio. 1893--and in progress. BLOMFIELD (R. T.).--A History of Renaissance Architecture in England. 2 vols. Imp. 8vo. 1897. CLAYTON (J.).--Ancient Timber Edifices of England. Folio. 1846. GOTCH (J. A.).--Architecture of the Renaissance in England. 2 vols. Folio. 1891-1894. HABERSHON (M.).--Ancient Half-Timbered Edifices of England. 4to. 1836. HAKEWILL (F.).--An Attempt to Determine the Exact Character of Elizabethan Architecture. 8vo. 1835. HALL (S. C.).--Baronial Halls and Ancient Edifices of England. 2 vols. 4to. 1850.