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Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.

Hospice de la Charité, Rheims, France: staircase. Lithograph by A. Dauzats after himself.

Architecture: a dog-leg staircase and details. Engraving by A. Bell.

Architecture: an assortment of masons tools, blocks of stone, and a folding rule. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].

Christ Church, Oxford: interior of staircase leading to the hall. Etching by A.L. Brunet Debaines.

Eastman Dental Hospital, London: a view of the staircase. Process print, 1926.

Hydraulics: a fountain at Grenelle, Paris, with spectators. Wood engraving by C. W. Sheeres, 1857.

The British Museum: the entrance hall and staircase. Wood engraving C. D. Laing, 1849, after B. Sly after L. Collman.

The staircase, and two details of the woodwork, at 49 Great Ormond Street, Holborn. Pencil drawing, June 1882, attributed to J. P. Emslie.

Architecture: various details of staircase design. Engraving by A. Bell.

A woman descending the stairs of a steep staircase in the gloom falls into the arms of a man who is ascending. Coloured lithograph, 1844.

Carpentry: various types of helical staircase, plans and sections. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.

Cabinet-making: a design for a balustrade or decorative panel [?]. Pencil drawing.

The British architect: or, the builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions called Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to glue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with that Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules Of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described. The whole being illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Designs and Examples, curiously engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, Carpenter.

St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth: the entrance hall, with a statue of Queen Victoria. Wood engraving by [J. I.].

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A woman descending the stairs of a steep staircase in the gloom falls into the arms of a man who is ascending. Coloured lithograph, 1844.

Carpentry: various types of helical staircase, plans and sections. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.

Cabinet-making: a design for a balustrade or decorative panel [?]. Pencil drawing.

St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth: the entrance hall, with a statue of Queen Victoria. Wood engraving by [J. I.].