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The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centering for Groins, Niches, &c. Examples for Roofs, Sky-Lights, &c. The Five Orders laid down by a New Scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their Enrichments. Plans, Elevations and Sections of Houses for Town and Country, Lodges, Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, Stables, &c. Design for a Church, with Plan, Elevation, and two Sections; an Altar-Piece, and Pulpit. Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Shop-Fronts, Door-Cases. Section of a Dining-Room and Library. Variety of Stair-Cases, with many other important Articles, and useful Embellishments. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, With Explanations to each, By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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A general treatise of architecture. In seven books. Containing All that is Necessary to be known in Building, with several new designs of houses, &c. and also the Plans of their different Situations. In a Manner entirely New and Pleasant. Being an Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Architecture and Building, and for the better understanding the rules of Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, And others both Antient and Modern. By Thomas Rowland, of New-Windsor, Gent. To which is added, a work of infinite Labour and Expence, consisting of tables for the mensuration of all sorts of works us'd in building, of great Use and Service to all Architects, Artificers, and Measurers whatsoever.
Rowland, Thomas, of New-Windsor.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732] [1739?]- Books
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Rural architecture: consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country. In which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified. With Such Remarks and Explanations as are conductive to render the Subject agreeable. Illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates. By Robert Morris, Surveyor.
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Books
Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital : architectural competition / David Reilly.
Reilly, DavidDate: 1995- Books
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The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centring for Groins, Niches, &c. Examples for Roofs, Sky-Lights, &c. The Five Orders laid down by a new Scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their Enrichments. Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Houses for Town and Country, Lodges, Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, Stables, &c. Design for a Church, with Plan, Elevation, and Two Sections; an Altar-Piece, and Pulpit. Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Shop-Fronts, Door-Cases. Section of a Dining-Room and Library. Variety of Stair-Cases: with many other important Articles and useful Embellishments. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper-plates, with Explanations to each. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: 1799- Books
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Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste, being above fifty intire new designs of plans, sections, elevations, &c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks, forests, Woods, Canals, &c. Containing Paling of several Sorts, Gates, Garden Seats, both close and open, Umbrello's, Alcoves, Grotto's and Grotesque Seats, Hermitages, Triumphal Arches, Temples, Banqueting Houses and Rooms, Rotundo's, Observatories, Ice-Houses, Bridges, Boats, and Cascades, also, An Obelisk or Monument, with Directions where proper to be erected, and the Method how to execute them. The Whole neatly Engrav'd On Fifty Four Copper-Plates. From the designs of Charles Over, architect.
Over, Charles.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The practical house carpenter, or The youth's instructor: Containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; the five orders laid down by an entire new scale; with frontispieces, chimney pieces, stair cases, and mouldings at large; with their proper embellishments for practice. plans, elevations, and sections, for town and country houses. Printed on fifty-four quarto copper plates, with explanations to face each plate. By William Pain, author of the golden rule and British palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The practical house carpenter, or the youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; The Five Orders laid down by an entire new Scale; with Frontispieces, Chimney Pieces, Stair Cases, and Mouldings at large; with their proper embellishments for practice. Plans, elevations, and sections, For Town and Country Houses. Printed on seventy-five quarto copper plates, with explanations to face each plate. By William Pain, Author of the Golden Rule and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790] [1791]- 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, Bricklavers, 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, Seales for enlarging or lessening at Pleasure, if required. 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 sraming the Roofs, and finding the Length and Backing of Hips, either square or hevel. Scantlings of the Timbers, figured in Proportion to their Bearing. The Method for trussing Girders, Searsing 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.LXXXVI. [1786]- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Building refurbishment plans
Date: 1990-1991Reference: WT/A/3/3/7Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Hospitals : design and development / W. Paul James, William Tatton-Brown.
James, W. Paul (William Paul)Date: 1986- Books
Happy by design : a guide to architecture and mental wellbeing / Ben Channon.
Channon, BenDate: [2018]- Books
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Hints for dwellings: consisting of original designs for cottages, farm-houses, villas &c. plain and ornamental; with plans to each: in which Strict Attention is Paid to Unite Convenience and Elegance with Economy. Including some designs for town-houses. By D. Laing, Architect and Surveyor. Elegantly engraved, in aqua-tinta, on thirty-four plates, with Appropriate Scenery.
Laing, David, 1774-1856.Date: 1800- Books
Libraries / [Allan Konya].
Konya, Allan.Date: 1986- Books
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A book of architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments. By James Gibbs.
Gibbs, James, 1682-1754.Date: Printed MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Rural architecture; or designs, from the simple cottage to the decorated villa; including some which have been executed. By John Plaw, Architect and Surveyor. Etched and shaded in aqua-tinta, on sixty-two plates.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
Building planning and design standards for architects, engineers, designers, consultants, building committees, draftsmen and students / [Harold Reeve Sleeper].
Sleeper, Harold Reeve, 1893-1960.Date: [1955]- Books
The new museum : architecture and display / Michael Brawne ; [translated into German: Wolfgang Pehnt].
Brawne, Michael.Date: [1965]
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Proposed Ladies Lodge, plans and drawings by Edward Taylor of York
Date: May - July 1889Reference: RET/2/1/18/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
The principles of planning buildings : an analytical treatise for the use of architects and others / by Percy L. Marks.
Marks, Percy L. (Percy Leman), 1891-Date: 1927- Books
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Essays on Gothic architecture, by the Rev. T. Warton, Rev. J. Bentham, Captain Grose, and the Rev. J. Milner. (with A Letter To The Publisher.) Illustrated with ten plates of ornaments, &c. selected from ancient buildings; Calculated To exhibit the various Styles of different Periods.
Date: 1800- Archives and manuscripts
Plaque design for 42 Gower Place registered offices re Burroughs Wellcome & Co Australia, South Africa and South America.
Date: c.1940sReference: WF/CA/P/09/05/35Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
"DOH Elderly Mental Illness Study - High Wycombe"
Date: 1990sReference: ART/COO/B/5/11Part of: Graham Cooper archive- Books
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Rural architecture in the Gothick taste. Being twenty new designs, for temples, garden-seats, summer-houses, Lodges, Terminies, Piers, &c. on sixteen copper plates. With Instructions to Workmen, and Hints where with most Advantage to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by William and John Halfpenny. Architects.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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The gentleman and farmer's architect. A new work. Containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs. Being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, Lodges for Parks, Pinery, Peach, Hot and Green Houses, With The Fire-Wall, Tan-Pit, &c. particularly described. Dutch, and other Barns, Cow-Houses, Stables, Sheepcots, Huts, Facades; With all other Offices appertaining to a well-regulated Farm; Their Situations rendered convenient, and Aspects agreeable. With scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just Dimensions and Use. Designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect. And well engraved on twenty-five folio copper-plates.
Lightoler, T. (Timothy), active 18th century.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]