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Designs in architecture; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Designs in architecture, for garden chairs, small gates for villas, park entrances, aviarys, Temples, Boat Houses, mausoleums, and bridges; with their plans, elevations, and sections, accompanied with scenery, &c. By W. Robertson.
Robertson, William (Architect)Date: [1800]- Books
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New designs in architecture, consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for various buildings, comprised in Xliv folio plates, designed and engraved by George Richardson, architect. = Nouveaux desseins d'architecture, ou, plans, elevations, et coupes de divers bâtimens; Compris in Xliv Planches in Folio, dessinées et gravées par George Richardson architecte.
Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?.Date: 1792- Books
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Familiar architecture; or, original designs of houses, for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages, summer retreats, Banqueting-Rooms, And Churches; With Plans, Sections, &c. To which is added, the masonry of semicircular and elliptical arches; with practical remarks. By Thomas Rawlins, architect. On fifty-one copper-plates.
Rawlins, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]- Books
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A complete body of architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs. By Isaac Ware, Esq. Of His Majesty's Board of Works. In which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.
Ware, Isaac, -1766.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A complete body of architecture. Adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs. By Isaac Ware, Esq. of His Majesty's board of works. In which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.
Ware, Isaac, -1766.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Designs in architecture, consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soane, Architect, member of the Royal Academies of parma and florence.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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Familiar architecture; or, original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen; parsonages; summer retreats; Banqueting-Rooms; and Churches: With Plans, Sections, &c. To which is added, the masonry of semicircular and elliptical arches; with practical remarks. By Thomas Rawlins, Architect. On fifty-one copper plates.
Rawlins, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples, and pavillions &c. With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley. To which is added an historical dissertation on Gothic architecture.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1790?]- Books
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The country gentleman's pocket companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture. Containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, Temples, Summer-Houses, Lodges, Huts, Grotto's, &c. in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste, With proper Directions annexed. Also, an exact estimate of their severa amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable. Correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates, from the designs, and under the direction of William and John Halfpenny, architects.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The country gentleman's pocket companion, and builder's assistant, for rural decorative architecture. Containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, temples, summer-houses, lodges, huts, grotto's, &c. In the Augustine, Gothic and Chinese taste, with proper directions annexed. Also an exact estimate of their several amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable. Correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates, from the designs and under the direction of William and John Halfpenny, architects.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: Beginning with the farm-house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa; calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life. Engraved on seventy copper-plates. With reference and explanation in letter-press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurements. By John Crunden, architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With A great Variety of Sections of rooms; from a common Room, to the most grand and magnificent. their decorations, viz. Bases, Surbases, Architraves, Freezes, and Cornices, properly inriched with Foliages, Frets and Flowers, in a New and Grand Taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for Practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges, Extending from Twenty Feet to Two Hundred and Twenty, in One Arch. Likewise some Screens and Pavilions. In Two Volumes. Each containing Sixty Plates, curiously engraved on Copper. By Abraha Swan, Architect. ...
Swan, Abraham.Date: M.D.CCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, Chimney-Pieces, Arcades, Colonades, Porticos, Umbrellos, Temples, and Pavillions &c. With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically executed. By B. & T. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1747- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: Beginning With The Farm House, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated Both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. With a reference and explanation, in letter-press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurement. By John Crunden, architect. The whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates, by Isaac Taylor.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: 1770- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: beginning with the farm house, and Regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. Engraved on seventy copper plates. With reference and explanation in letter press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurements. By John Crunden, Architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated Both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. With a Reference and Explanation, in Letter-Press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurement. By John Crunden, architect. The whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates, by Isaac Taylor.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: 1767- Books
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Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs and plans and elevations, &c. from the Imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China. ... The whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, ... adapted to this climate, by P. Decker, ...
Decker, Paul.Date: 1759- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: beginning with the farm-house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated Both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. Engraved on seventy copper-plates, with reference and explanation, in letter-press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurement. By John Crunden, Architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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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: or monthly companion for architects, 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 and sections, 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, Cielings, 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. The whole forming a complete system of architecture, in all its Branches; and so disposed, as to render the Surveyor, Carpenter, Mason, &c. equally capable to erect a Cathedral, a Mansion, a Temple, or a Rural Cot. By a society of architects. Each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels.
Carter, John, 1748-1817.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774][-78]- Books
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A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses. Together with Offices and Out-Buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several Uses and Situations required. As Also An Estimate of each by the great Square. Prefix'd to these Are ten different Sorts of Piers, with Gates of various Compositions suitable to the same; intended for Entrances to Courts, Gardens, &c. As Also New Architectonic Rules for drawing the Members, in all Kinds and Proportions of the Orders. And to them are also added A Perspective View of the sinking Pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining Arches; and a Method proposed by Trusses &c. to take off ? of the Weight, or Abutment and Pressure now on the Pier, and discharge it as set forth on the Plate. The whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with Explanations thereto in common Press-Work. Neatly engraved, and design'd by William Halfpenny, Architect.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: 1749- Books
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An essay on British cottage architecture: Being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance. Supported by fourteen designs, with their technography, or plans, laid down to scale; comprising dwellings for the peasant and farmer, and retreats for the gentleman; with various observations thereon: the whole extending to twenty-one plates, designed and executed in Aqua-Tinta. By James Malton.
Malton, James, -1803.Date: M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Pain's British Palladio: or, the builder's general assistant. Demonstrating in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated With Several New and Useful Designs of Houses, with their Plans, Elevations, and Sections. Also, Clear and Ample Instructions, annexed to each Subject, in Letter-Press; with a List of Prices for Materials and Labour, and Labour only. This Work will be universally useful to all Carpenters, Bricklayers, Masons, Joiners, Plaisterers, and others, concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. comprehending the following Subjects, viz. Plans, Elevations, and Sections, of Gentlemen's Houses. Designs for Doors, Chimneys, and Ceilings, with their proper Embellishments, in the most modern Taste. A great Variety of Mouldings, for Base and Surbase Architraves, Imposts, Friezes, and Cornices, with their proper Ornaments, for Practice, drawn to Half-Size: To which are added, Scales for enlarging or lessening at Pleasure. Also, great Variety of Stair-Cases; shewing the practical Method of executing them, in any Case required, viz. Groins, Angle-Brackets, Circular Circular Flewing and Winding Soffits, Domes, Sky-Lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest Capacity. The Proportion of Windows for the Light to Rooms. Preparing Foundations; the Proportion of Chimneys to Rooms, and Sections of Flews. The principal Timbers properly laid out, on each Plan, viz. the Manner of framing the Roofs, and finding the Length and Backing of Hips, either square or bevel. Scantlings of the Timbers, figured in Proportion to their Bearing. The Method for trussing Girders, Scarfing Plates, &c. And many other Articles, particularly useful to all Persons in the Building Profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, fro the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Pain's British palladio: or, The builder's general assistant. Demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. Illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections. Also, clear and ample instructions annexed to each subject, in letter-press; with a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only. This work will be universally useful to all carpenters, bricklayers, masons, joiners, plaisterers, and other concerned in the several branches of building, &c. comprehending the following subjects, viz. Plans, elevations, and sections of gentlemen's houses. designs for doors, chimneys, and ceilings, with their proper embellishments, in the most modern taste. A great variety of mouldings, for base and surbase architraves, imposts, friezes and cornices, with their proper ornaments, for practice, drawn to half-size: to which are added, scales for enlarging or lessening at pleasure. Also, great variety of stair-cases; shewing the practical method of executing them, in any case required, viz. groins, angle-brackets, circular flewing and winding soffits, domes, sky-lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest capacity. The proportion of windows for the light to rooms. Preparing foundations; the proportion of chimneys to rooms, and sections of flews. The principal timbers properly laid out, on each plan, viz. the manner of framing the roofs, and finding the length and backing of hips, either square or bevel. Scantlings of the timbers, figured in proportion to their bearing. The method for trussing girders, scarsing plates, &c. And many other articles, particularly useful to all persons in the building profession. The whole correctly engraved on forty-two folio copper-plates, from the original designs of William and James Pain.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]