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The practical builder; or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; The Use of Tramel for Groins, Angle Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on flewing Jambs, the preparing and making their Soffits; Rules of Carpentry, To find the Length and Backing of Hips strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders in their general and particular Parts: Gluing of Columns; Stair-Cases with their Ramp and Twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. In The Newest Taste; With Plans and Elevations of Gentlemen's and Farm Houses, Barns, &c. The fifth edition; revised and corrected by the author, William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Useful and ornamental designs in architecture. Composed in the manner of the antique, and most approved taste of the present day. The whole being peculiarly adapted for execution. By Richard Morrison, architect.
Morrison, Richard, 1767-1849.Date: 1793- Books
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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing James, the preparing and making their Soffits. Rules of Carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. - Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their general and particular Parts, Gluing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their ramp and twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the newest Taste. With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples, Improved from the best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces. Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts, The like never before Published. Engraved on 184 Copper Plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to Draw from and Work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1747- Books
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Designs for gates. Ornamental iron work, or designs in the present taste, for fan-lights, stair-case-railing, window-guard-irons, lamp-irons, palisades, & gates. With a scheme for adjusting designs with facility and accuracy to any slope. Engraved on twenty one plates.
Date: [1773?]- Books
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The principles of drawing ornaments made easy, by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, Husks, Foliage, &c. Engraved In Imitation Of Drawings, on sixteen plates, With Instructions For Learning without a Master; Particularly Useful To Carvers, Cabinet-Makers, Stucco-Workers, Painters, Smiths, And every One concerned in Ornamental Decorations. By an artist.
Artist.Date: [1780]- Books
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A treatise on civil architecture, in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands. By William Chambers, Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, and architect to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Princess Dowager of Wales.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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Designs of Inigo Jones and others. Published by I: Ware.
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.Date: 1743- Books
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The ornamental architect, or young artists instructor, consisting of the five orders, ... with their embelishments [sic] &c. Elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio-plates, by various masters. ... Publish'd by the author Matthias Darly ...
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778.Date: 1771- Books
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The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on One Hundred and Eighty-Six Copper-Plates, for Piers, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney-Pieces, Tabernacle-Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochi's, Pulpits, Types, Altar-Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sun-Dials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Cielings, and Iron Works. Proportioned by Aliquot Parts. With an Appendix of Fourteen Plates of Trusses for Girders and Beams, different Sorts of Rafters, and a Variety of Roofs, &c. To which are prefixed, The Five Orders of Columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose Members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner than has yet been done. The Whole interspersed With sure Rules for working all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate Use of Workmen, never published before, in any Language. By B.L.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1770- Books
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Gothic architecture decorated. Consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses; ... Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them. The whole engraved on twelve copper plates. Designed by P. Decker, ...
Decker, Paul.Date: 1759- Books
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A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental: Viz. Books of Plans and Elevations for Houses, Temples, Bridges, &c. Of Ornaments for Internal Decorations, Foliage for Carvers, &c. On Perspective. Books of Use to Carpenters, Bricklayers, and Workmen in general, &c. &c. Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's architectural library, no. 56, High Holborn, London. Where may be had the Works of the most celebrated French Architects and Engineers.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)Date: 1795?]- Books
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings, obelisks, termini's, &c. On fourteen copper plates. Together with full instructions to workmen annex'd to each particular design; a near estimate of their charge, and hints where with most advantage to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, architects. Part II. Published according to act of Parliament, Feb 1, 1751.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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New designs for Chinese bridges, temples, triumphal arches, garden-seats, palings, obelisks, termini, &c. On fourteen copper plates. Together with full instructions to workmen, annexed to each particular design. A near estimate of their charge, and hints where, with most advantage, to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, architects. Part II. Published according to act of Parliament.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1755?]- Books
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A series of original designs for country seats or villas; containing plans and elevations, sections of the principal apartments, ceilings, chimney-pieces, capitals of columns, ornaments for friezes, and other interior decorations, in the antique style. Comprized in LVII. Plates, with Descriptions. Designed and engraved, in Aquatina. by George Richardson, Architect.
Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental; viz. Books of plans and elevations for houses, temples, bridges, &c. Of ornaments for internal decorations, foliage for carvers, &c. on perspective. Books of use to carpenters, bricklayers, and workmen in general, &c. &c. Which with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library, no.56, High Holborn, London: where may be had the works of the most celebrate French architects and engineers.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)Date: 1794?]- Books
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A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental: Viz. books of plans and elevations for houses, temples, bridges, &c. Of ornaments for internal decorations, foliage for carvers, &c. On perspective. Books of use to carpenters, bricklayers, and workmen in general, &c. &c. Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylors's architectural library, No. 56, High Holborn, London. Where may be had the works of the most celebrated French architects and engineers.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)Date: 1796?]- Books
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A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical, and ornamental; viz. Books of plans and elevatons for houses, temples, bridges, &c. of ornaments for internal decorations, foliage for carvers, &c. on perspective. Books of use to carpenters, bricklayers, and workmen in general, &c. &c. Which, with the best ancient authors, are constantly on sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library, No.56, High Holborn, London: where may be had the works of the most celebrated French architects and engineers, of which a MS. catalogue may be seen.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)Date: 1793?]- Books
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The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant: Demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish; illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published; with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate; being not only useful but necessary to all masons, bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, joiners, and others concerned in the several branches of building, &c. Also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule, to calculated as to render easy the drawing of any figure, architrave, frize, cornice, or moulding, that can be required to any given scale. The whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper-plates, from the designs of William Pain the subjects herein chiefly consist of, I. Of foundations, walls, and their diminutions, fitness of chimneys, and proportion of light to rooms, with the due scantlings of timber to be cut for building, &c ... VIII. Gothic architecture, being a various collection of columns, entablatures, arches, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, and other decorations in that prevailing taste-and it may be noted of these, as of all the foregoing examples, that they are immediately adapted to workmen, and may be executed by the meanest capacity.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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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.
Swan, Abraham.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The British architect: or, the builders 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 call'd Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to giue 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 Cornicns, Groins, and Angle Brackets described. The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engaved by the best Hands, on sixty folio copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect.
Swan, Abraham.Date: [1762?]- Books
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The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant; demonstrating, After the most easy and practical Method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish; Illustrated with a greater Number of useful and familiar Examples than any Work of that Kind hitherto published; With Clear and ample Instructions annexed to each Subject or Number, on the same Plate, with Estimates of Materials and Workmanship; Being not only useful to all Masons, Bricklayers, Plasterers, Carpenters, Joiners, and others concerned in the several Branches of Building, &c. but also necessary for Gentlemen, who will be hereby enabled to know the exact Expence of any Building, Alteration, or Repair. The whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs on the following Subjects, &c. 1. Of Foundations, Walls, and their Diminutions, Fitness of Chimneys, and Proportion of Light to Rooms, with the due Scantlings of Timber to be cut for Buildings, &c. II. Great Variety of Geometrical, Elliptic, and Polygon Figures, with Rules for their Formation, centering of all Sorts for Groins, Brick and Stone Arches, &c. both circular and splayed, also with circular Soflits in a circular Wall; many Examples for Gluing and Vancering Niches, &c. with Rules for tracing the Cover of Curve-Line Roofs, Piers, Vases, Pedestals for Sun-Dials, Busts, &c. and their must suitable Proportions. III. General Directions for framing Floors and Partitions Truss-Roofs, &c. and Methods to find the Length and Backing of Hips, straight or curve Lines to any Pitch, Square, or Bevel. IV. Of Stair-Cases, variously constructed; the Methods of working Ramp and Twist Rails; Profits of Stairs to shew the Manner of setting Carriages for the Steps; also the Framing of String-Boards and Rails, and likewise of fixing them. V. The Five Orders of Architecture from Palladio, with the Rule for gauging Flutes and Fillets on a diminished Column, by a Method extremely easy, and entirely new. VI. Doors, Windows, Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Cornices, Mouldings, &c. truly proportioned, in a plain and genteel Taste. Vii. Sacred Ornaments, viz. Altar-Pieces, Pulpits, &c. Viii. Gothic Architecture, being a various Collection of Columns, Entablatures, Arches, Doors, Windows, Chimney-Pieces, and other Decorations in that prevailing Taste-And it may be noted of these, as of all the foregoing Examples, that they are immediately adapted to Workmen, and may be executed by the meanest Capacity. IX. Plans and Elevations of elegant Buildings Green-Houses, Hot-Houses, Temples, Seats for Gardens, Parks, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Pictures
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The Kanheri caves on the island of Salsette, near Bombay, Maharashtra. Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell, 1800.
Daniell, Thomas, 1749-1840.Date: 1 June 1800Reference: 27880iPart of: Oriental scenery- Books
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The British architect: or, the builders 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 Trussed Roofs, and the Nature of a splayed 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 Islands, on sixty folio copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect.
Swan, Abraham.Date: [1765?]- Books
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The complete modern joiner, or a collection of original designs in the present taste, for chimney-pieces and door-cases, with their Mouldings and Enrichments at Large; Frizes, Tablets, Ornaments for Pilasters, Bases, Sub-Bases and Cornices for Rooms, &c. With a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures, to rooms of any size: by N. Wallis, Architect.
Wallis, N.Date: [1772]