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Architecture - Orders - Early works to 1800
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The builder's vade-mecum: or, a complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where, by Way of Dialogue in Nine Lectures, the Etymology, Characters, Proportions, Profiles, Ornaments, Measures and Dispositions of the Members of their several Columns and Entablatures are distinctly consider'd and explain'd, with respect to the Practice of Palladio. Together with the manner of drawing the geometrical elevation of the five orders of columns in Architecture, and to measure the several Parts of Buildings in general: illustrated on seven copper-plates, being a necessary Companion for all Gentlemen, as well as Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, &c. And all Others concern'd in the several Parts of Buildings in general. By B. Langley, of Twickenham.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1735- Books
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Proportional architecture; or, the five orders; regulated by equal parts: after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity. To which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.
Robinson, William, approximately 1744-Date: 1736- 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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A dissertation upon the orders of columns, and their appendages; the whole constituting the Orders of Architecture: Interspersed with A brief Account of the various Kinds of intercolumnation Observed by the Antients: and Illustrated with proper Draughts from three and Twenty Copper Plates Engraved by Mr. Paul Fourdrinier. Compiled For the Use of Artificers in the Building Trades. By John Wood, Architect.
Wood, John, 1704-1754.Date: 1750- Books
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The carpenters companion: being an accurate and compleat treatise of carpenters works; In which is contained Various Sorts of Timber-Floors, Partitions, Bridges, and especially Roofs; with their Manner of Framing, Trussing, &c. made easy to all concerned in Building; but more particularly to Carpenters; To which is added, The Five Orders of Architecture, in a more easy and concise Method than any yet Published. Exemplified in forty-one copper-plates; with remarks and descriptions. By James Smith.
Smith, James, writer on carpentry.Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]