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Architecture - Designs and plans - Early works to 1800
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Select architecture: being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country; in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, For every Species of that noble Art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified. From the Plain Town-House to the Stately Hotel; And in the Country from the genteel and convenient Farm-House to the Parochial Church. With Suitable Embellishments. Also Bridges, Baths, Summer-Houses, &c. with Estimates to each Design by the Great Square, and such Remarks, Explanations and Scales are annexed, that the Comprehension is rendered easy, and Subject most agreeable. Illustrated with fifty copper plates, Quarto. By Robert Morris, Surveyor.
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot. ... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder.
Carter, John, 1748-1817.Date: [between 1794 and 1817]- Books
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The gentleman's and builder's repository: or, architecture display'd. Containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry. As also The most Easy, Expeditious, and Correct Methods for attaining the Knowledge of the Five Orders of Architecture, by equal Parts, and fewer Divisions, than any Thing hitherto published. Together With all such Rules for Arches, Doors, Windows, Ceiling-Pieces, Chimney-Pieces, and their particular Embellishments, as can be required. Likewise A large Variety of Designs for Truss Roofs; with the Method of finding the Hip, either Square or Bevel. Also The most certain and approved Methods of forming a Number of different Stair-Cases, with their Twisted Rails, &c. The whole embellished, not only with eighty-four plates, in Quarto, but such Variety of Cieling-Pieces, Shields, Compartments, and other curious and uncommon Decorations, as must needs render it acceptable to all Gentlemen, Artificers, and others, who delight in, or practice, the Art of Building. The designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, Surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole.
Hoppus, E. (Edward), -1739.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The builder's pocket-treasure; or, Palladio delineated and explained, in such a manner as to render that most excellent author plain and intelligible to the meanest Capacity, in which not only the Theory, but the Practical Part of Architecture has been carefully attended to. Illustrated With New and Useful Designs of Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, &c. with their Bases, Capitals, and Entablatures, at large for Practice; Architrave Frontispieces, Cornices, and Mouldings for the Inside of Rooms, &c. the Construction of Stairs, with their Ramp and twist Rails; framing of Floors, Rooss, and Partitions; with the Method of finding the Length and Backing of Hips, streight or curvi-linear; the tracing of Groins, Angle-Blackets, splay'd or circular Soffits; with Plans and Elevations of a Dwelling-House, Hot-House, Garden Temple, Seat and Bridge; and a Table of Scantlings for cutting Timber for Building. The Whole neatly and correctly engraved on Forty-Four Copper Plates, With printed Explanations to face each Plate. By William Pain. Engraved by Isaac Taylor.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: [1766]- Books
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A book of architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments. By James Gibbs.
Gibbs, James, 1682-1754.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]