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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 sewer 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 Ninety Plates. in Quarte, but such Variety of Ceiling-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: MDCCLX. [1760]- 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 prefix'd, 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, Modilions, &c. The like, for the immediate Use of Workmen, never published before, in any Language. By B.L.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1745- 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 prefix'd, 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: 1750- Books
The guerilla aspies handbook / / by Paul Wady.
Wady, PaulDate: 2015- Books
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A complete collection of abstracts of acts of Parliament and cases with opinions of the judges upon the following taxes: viz. upon houses, Windows, Servants, Horses, Carriages and Dogs; the Duties upon Hair-Powder Certificates; and also the Twenty Per Cent. upon Assessed Taxes; together with the several determinations upon the post-horse act. By John Smee, of the Exchequer, Westminster, Gent. In two volumes. ...
Smee, John.Date: 1797- Books
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The first book of architecture: by Andrea Palladio. Translated out of Italian, with an appendix touching Doors and Windows. by Pr. Le Muet Architect to the French King. Translated into English by Godfrey Richards. The whole illustrated with above seventy copper cuts. Also rules and demonstrations, with several designs, for the Framing of any manner of Roofs, either Above Pitch, or Under Pitch, whether Square, or Bevel, never before Published: by that Ingenious Architect Mr. William Pope of London. With designs of floors of Variety of Small Pieces of Wood Inlaid, lately made in the Palace at Somerset-House; a Curiousity never practised before in England.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.Date: 1729- Books
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A catalogue of the large and justly admired museum of curiosities, of James West, Esq; Deceased; Late President of the Royal Society: Consisting of a most extensive Variety of Antique Gems, Bronzes, Bass-Relievos, Urns, and Inscriptions; Carvings in Wood and Ivory; exquisite fine painted Glass in whole Windows and Pieces; Missals richly illuminated and well preserved; Miniatures and Enamellings on Gold and Copper; several Pieces of the rare old China and Japan, and the most beautiful Dresden Porcelain; some old printed Books extremely scarce, and divers old Manuscripts, Grants, and Rolls: together with His large and superb service of plate, amounting to about Six Thousand Ounces: All which (by Order of the Administratrix) Will be sold by auction, By Mess. Langford's, At their House in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, On Saturday the 27th of this Instant February 1773, and the Six following Days (sunday excepted.) The same may be viewed on Thursday and Friday the 25th and 26th of February, and till the Time of Sale, which will begin each Day punctually at Twelve O'Clock.
Mr. Langford and Son.Date: 1773]- Books
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The carpenter and joiner's assistant; containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together; For Hanging Of AtDoors ON Straight OR Circular Plans; For fitting up Windows and Shutters to answer various Purposes, With Rules For Hanging Them: For the Construction of Floors, Partitions, Soffits, Groins, Arches for Masonny; for constructing Roofs in the best Manner from a given Quantity of Timber: For placing of Bond Timbers, with various Methods for adjusting Raking Pediments, enlarging and diminishing of Mouldings; taking Dimensions for Joinery, and for setting out Shop Fronts. With a new scheme for constructing stairs and hand-rails, and for Stairs having a Conical Well-Hole, &c. &c. To Which Are Added, Examples Of AtVarious Roofs Exectued, With The Scantlings, From Actual Measurements. With Rules for Mortices and Tenons, and for fixing Iron Straps, &c. Also Extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. On the Strength Of AtTimber, with Practical Observations. Illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations. By Peter Nicholson, Author Of At The Carpenter's New Guide, &c.
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.Date: 1797- Books
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The history of the cathedral church of Durham as it was before the dissolution of the monastry; containing An Account of the Rites, Customs, and Ceremonies used therein. Together with a Particular Description of the Fine Paintings in the Windows. Likewise the Translation of St. Cuthbert's Body from Holy-Island; With the Various Accidents that attended to it's Interment here. With an appendix Of divers antiquities, collected from the best Manuscripts.
Hunter, Christopher, 1675-1757.Date: [1742?]- Books
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A practical arrangement of the laws relative to the excise; wherein the statutes, with references to similar English Acts of Parliament, are carefully digested. To which are added, cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals, decisions of the Commissioners for Taxes in England on male Servants and Windows, with the opinions of the Judges Thereupon, and an appendix of Precedents of Informations, &c. By Maurice Copinger, Esq. One of his Majesty's Counsel at Law.
Copinger, Maurice.Date: 1799- 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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Browne's general law list; for the year 1789; being an Alphabetical Register of the Names and Residence of all the Judges and Serjeants King's Counsel Counsellors Chancery Draftsmen Special Pleaders Conveyancers Short Hand Writers Attorneys Public Notaries Middlesex Justices Officers of Law Courts Masters in Chancery Commis. of Bankrupts &c. Country Lieutenants and Town-Clerks Commissioners and Officers of Excise Customs, Stamps, Houses, Windows, &c. &c. Houses of Parliament Doctors and Proctors Lordmayor and Aldermen Companies Halls, Clerks and Beadles Bankers and Surveyors Auctioneers and Brokers Newspapers in Great-Britain and Ireland, Agents, &c. &c. To which are added, A Complete List of the Common and Civil Law-Offices, Hours of Attendance, and Business done at each. English and Welch Circuits, Justices, Serjeants, and Counsel, pointing out the different Circuits they go, and the Towns where the Assizes are held. Postage of Letters from all the Post-Towns to London. With a Correct List of the Stage Coaches, also the Mail Coaches, With the Times and Places from whence they set out, and Towns they go through, &c. &c.
Date: [1788]
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Notes on arrangements for cleaning windows
Date: 1850s - 1860sReference: RET/5/7/8/1Part of: The Retreat Archive
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Notes on arrangements for cleaning windows
Date: c 1873Reference: RET/5/7/8/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
House of windows / Alexia Casale.
Casale, AlexiaDate: 2015- Books
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Fashion of windows, in civil and ecclesiastical buildings, before the conquest.
Aubrey, John, 1626-1697.Date: 1766?]- Archives and manuscripts
A brown house with blue windows (artwork)
Date: 1976-1977Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/3/1/3Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Ephemera
Protecting your windows - a sandbag defence / Wills's Cigarettes.
Date: [1938]- Archives and manuscripts
‘Looking from windows of my office in Baltimore, March 1952'
Date: 1952Reference: PP/AWD/P/3/8Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: London scenes and views from windows (1970s-1980s)
Date: 1970s-1980sReference: PP/AMI/B/45Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive- Books
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New-College Chapel. As the painted windows of this Chapel make one of it's [sic] chief ornaments, ...
New College (University of Oxford). Chapel.Date: 1770?]
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SigmaPlot windows scientific graph system : summary of features / Jandel Scientific.
Jandel Scientific (Firm)Date: [1993?]- Books
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Some account of the church and windows of St. Neot's, in Cornwall.
Forster, Benjamin, 1736-1805.Date: 1786- Books
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Cases which have been determined by the judges relative to the duties on houses and windows, and on inhabited houses.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Archives and manuscripts
Audrey Amiss sketchbook: views from windows, still life and flowers (1960s-1970s)
Date: 1960s-1970sReference: PP/AMI/B/34Part of: Audrey Amiss Archive