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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 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 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 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, Architect.
Swan, Abraham.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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Rules, orders and notices, in The Court of King's Bench. From the Second of King James I. to Hilary Term the Fifteenth of King George II. 1741. Examined by the originals; To which are now added, many useful Rules of Court, omitted in former Collections, and a Translation, in opposite Columns, of the Rules heretofore Printed in Latin: Together with Notes, Remarks and References: And a new Alphabetical Table to the Whole.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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Rules orders and notices, in the Court of King's Bench. From the Second of King James I. to Michaelmas Term the 14th of King George II. 1740. Examined by the Originals. To which are now added, many useful Rules of Court, omitted in former Collections, and a Translation, in opposite Columns, of the Rules heretofore Printed in Latin: Together with Notes, Remarks and References: And a new Alphabetical Table to the Whole.
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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A list of the Lords spiritual and temporal: also, a list of the last and present House of Commons, Printed in opposite Columns, with the several Alterations which happened in the last Parliament by Deaths, Promotions, &c. Likewise, An Alphabetical list of the present Members (properly distinguished) with the Names of the Shires, Cities, or Boroughs, which they now represent, or represented the last Parliament, the Number of Parliaments for which they have been chosen, and the Places of their Residence in Town.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1741- Books
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An introduction to the most useful European languages, consisting of select passages, from the most celebrated English, French, Italian, and Spanish authors. With translations as close as possible; So disposed, in Columns, as to give in one View the Manner of expressing the same Sentence in each Language. Intended for the Use of Foreigners, Merchants, and Gentlemen who make the Knowledge of those Languages their Study. By Joseph Baretti, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.
Date: 1772- Books
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The builder's chest-book; or, a complete key to the five orders in architecture. Wherein, by Way of Dialogue, the Etymology, Characters, Proportions, Profiles, Ornaments, Measures and Dispositions of the Members of their several Columns and Entablature 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, and to measure the several Parts of Buildings in general. By B. Langley. The second edition, much improv'd. To which is added, Geometrical rules made easy for the use of mechanicks concern'd in buildings : Containing, New and Infallible Methods, for Striking out from proper Centers, the Groyns of Arches regular and irregular, the Angle Brackets of Coves, Crowns of Beaufets circular or elliptick. With many other useful Problems relating to all Curve Lines introduc'd in Building Also, An Essay, on the Nature and Properties of Arches in general, mechanically consider'd; exemplified by several Geometrical Figures, demonstrating their Properties and Powers. With some remarks on the intended bridge at Westminster. The Whole design'd chiefly for the Information and Use of all Gentlemen, Builders, Artificers, &c. By Isaac Gadsdon.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1739- Books
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An attorney's practice epitomized: or, the method, times and expences of proceedings in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas. From the Commencement of a Suit, to the Trial, final Judgment and Execution; so advantageously placed in opposite Columns, as to shew at one View, the Agreement or Difference in the Practice of the said Courts: Whereby many Defaults and Irregularities (which frequently happen) may be prevented, and Business transacted, either in Town or Country, with Ease, Expedition and Certainty. Perused by several Officers of the Courts, and by many eminent Attornies and Agents in London.
Author of the Attorney's practice epitomized.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The practical measurer his pocket-companion: containing tables ready cast up, for the speedy mensuration of timber, board, &c. Being Very useful for such as are necessarily employ'd in the Practice of Measuring. By Isaac Keay. The fourth edition, revised and corrected, and thereto added Columns for the Side of the Square, being Inches, and 1 and 3 Quarters, or Double to what they were before, &c. With an appendix, Containing Four several Ways of measuring both Timber of one Thickness and Tapering, and a Vindication of measuring by the Girt; and a preface. By E. Hatton, Gent.
Keay, Isaac.Date: 1730- Books
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The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture. Wherein Their Pedestals, Columns, Entablatures, Imposts, and Arches, are taken from the best Examples of the Ancients, and proportioned by equal Parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy Manner, than has been done in any Language. For the Instruction Of Apprentices and Journeymen Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Joiners, Carvers, Turners, Painters, Plaisterers, Cabinet-Makers, &c. (and such Masters) who are unacquainted with so much Architecture, as is absolutely necessary for them to understand, in their respective Professions. And Others, Who desire a Just Knowledge of the Fundamental Rules of that noble Art. By B. Langley, Architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1750]- Books
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The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture. Wherein Their Pedestals, Columns, Entablatures, Imposts, and Arches, are taken from the best Examples of the Ancients, and proportioned by equal Parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy Manner, than has been done in any Language. For the instruction of apprentices and journey men Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Joiners, Carvers, Turners, Painters, Plaisterers, Cabinet-Makers, &c. (and such Masters) who are unacquainted with so much Architecture, as is absolutely necessary for them to understand, in their respective Professions: And Others, Who desire a just Knowledge of the Fundamental Rules of that noble Art. By B. Langley, Architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1756]- Books
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Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnæus. With the genera; their mode of growth, (as Tree, Shrub, or Herb;) The Number of Species to Each Genus; Where Principally Native; and The Number Indigenous to the British Isles: Arranged in Columns under Each Class and Order; and Digested Alphabetically under Several Generic Distinctions. By which Means most Plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes. I. Of the Linnaean Genera accented, with the British Names. II. Of such Trivial Names as were the Genera of Old Authors. III. Of the British Names, with the Linnaean Genera; to which are added many of the Specific Names. Also, A Table of several Vegetable Drugs not in the Indexes.
Darwin, Robert Waring, 1724-1816.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A particular of the substantial mansion, called Argyll House, Late belonging to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, deceased, Situated in Argyll-Buildings; The Ground Floor containing a large Dining Parlour, a Drawing Room, seven other Rooms, and a Library ninety Feet in Length, and twenty-two in Breadth, with two Galleries supported with fluted Columns and carved Capitals, neatly fitted up with Shelves for Books, and painted in Chiaro Oscuro on the Walls; seven Rooms on the first Floor, a long Gallery over the Library, and an Attic Story, a large convenient Kitchen, and other Offices, a Range of fine dry bricked Vaults under the Library, and other Vaults and Cellaring; being Part Freehold and Part Leasehold, as are described in the Plans. Which will be sold by Auction, By Mr. Prestage, On Wednesday the 22d of February, 1764, punctually at One O'Clock, on the Premises. The said Premises may be viewed on Wednesday the 15th, till the Time of Sale. Printed Particulars, with Plans of the Premises, may be had at Mr. Prestage's in Savile-Row, next Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square.
Prestage, John, -1767.Date: 1764]- 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 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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A true and exact list of the lords spiritual and temporal, As also of The Last House of Commons of Queen Anne, and the First House of Commons of King George, Summon'd to meet at Westminster the Seventeenth of March 1714/15. In two Columns: With a Blank Margent, to Insert the Alterations which shall happen during the several Sessions, by Death of Members, Undue Elections, Double Returns, &c.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1715- Books
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An exact list of all those who voted for and against the late convention in the House of Commons, The Names of the Places for which they serve, their several known Employments, their visible yearly Salaries, in distinct Columns; With an Introduction proper to the Subject and also certain Queries, very seasonable at this Time. To which is added, a list of all those who voted for and against the Excise, in the year 1733. For the Use of the Electors of Great Britain.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1799- Books
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Les termes de la ley: or, certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common and statute laws of this realm, now in use, expounded and explained, in French and English in opposite Columns. Written originally by William Rastall, a most learned Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, as mention'd by Sir Edw. Coke in the Preface to his 10th. Report. Corrected and enlarged, with the addition of many other words; particularly of those that have been lately introduced into the Statute Law of Great Britain.
Rastell, John, -1536.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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A proposition for a new order in architecture, with rules for drawing the several parts. Shewing The Intercoluminations, Arcades, Windows and Niches of this Composition; and how it is adapted to assemble with the Grecian and Roman Orders: Also the Manner of placing it over the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite Orders. Shewing, likewise, how Columns of this Composition may be doubled for the Support of the Angle of a Building (as Palladio has doubled those of the Doric Order on the projecting Angle in the Front of the Palace of Count Valerio at Vicenza, where the Shafts intersect each other), and have a substantial and regular Effect. With two original designs (which have been executed) of this composition; one of them is a Portico, in which the Columns and Pilasters are Two Feet One Inch Diameter, and Thirty-Six Feet Eight Inches high, ornamented agreeably to those Rules. The other Design is a Bow Window, ornamented with Pilasters. To which are added, two plates of the Gothic screen or Gallery lately executed in St. George's Chapel at Windsor. On thirty-one copper-plates. By Henry Emlyn, F.A.S.
Emlyn, Henry, 1728 or 1729-1815.Date: M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]- Books
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An attorney's practice epitomiz'd; or the method, times and expences of proceeding in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, from the commencement of a suit, to the trial, final judgment and execution; so advantageously placed in opposite Columns as to shew at one View, the Agreement or Difference in the Practice of the said Courts: Whereby many Defaults and Irregularities (which frequently happen) may be prevented and Business transacted, either in Town or Country, with Ease Expedition and Certainty. Perused by several Officers of the Courts, and by many Eminent Attornies and Agents in London. The eighth edition, corrected; to which are now added, the proceedings relating to attornies, ejectment, and outlawry.
Author of the Attorney's practice epitomized.Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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An attorney's practice epitomiz'd; or the method, times and expences of proceeding in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, from the commencement of a suit, to the trial, final judgment and execution; so advantageously placed in opposite Columns, as to shew at one View, the Agreement or Difference in the Practice of the said Courts: Whereby many Defaults and Irregularities (which frequently happen) may be prevented, and Business transacted, either in Town or Country, with Ease, Expedition and Certainty. Perused by several Officers of the Courts, and by many Eminent Attornies and Agents in London. The seventh edition, corrected; to which is added, the method of suing out and passing fines and recoveries, and the exact fees to be paid at each office: Also the Terms and Returns regulated by the late Acts of Parliament for altering the Style and Michaelmas Term.
Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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Cato's Distichs de moribus improved, in a more complete and useful method than any yet extant: containing not only a correct numerical clavis, with a construing and parsing index; but also a literal translation of Erasmus's comment on each distich, the English answering exactly to the Latin in distinct Columns, and distinguishes by the same Characters, the Roman and Italick being used alternately to that End, for the Ease of the Learner: to which are added, as a further Advantage, the proper quantities marked on the Penultima, or last Syllable but one, of every Word both in Verse and Prose, to prevent false Pronunciation; a Matter of great Importance to the speedy Attainment of the Latin Tongue: Being digested in so plain and easy a Manner, that a Youth who is just acquainted with the Rudiments of Grammar may, by the Help of this Method, construe and parse his Lesson with Pleasure, and pronounce it right without a Master. For the use of schools. By J. Roberts, Formerly of St. John's College in Oxford.
Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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Cato's Distichs de moribus improved, in a more compleat and useful method than any yet extant. Containing not only a correct numerical clavis, with a construing and parsing index, but also a literal translation of Erasmus's comment on each distich, the English answering exactly to the Latin in distinct Columns, and distinguished by the same Characters, the Roman and Italic being used alternately to that End, for the Ease of the Learner. To which are added, as a further Advantage, the proper quantities mark'd on the Penultima, or last Syllable but one, of every Word both in Verse and Prose, to prevent false Pronunciation; a Matter of great Importance to the speedy Attainment of the Latin Tongue: Being digested in so Plain and Easy a Manner, that a Youth who is just acquainted with the Rudiments of Grammar may, by the Help of this Method, construe and parse his Lesson with Pleasure, and pronounce it right without a Master. For the use of schools. By J. Roberts, Formerly of St. John's College in Oxford.
Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Archives and manuscripts
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Collage. Newspaper columns with circular aura
Date: 19 May 1985Reference: SA/MAR/292Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection
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Three columns of basalt, with fragments. Aquatint, 1816.
Date: 1816Reference: 43934i