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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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The country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs; for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates; with Plans of the Offices belonging to each Design, Distributed with a strict Attention to Convenience, Elegance and Economy. Engraved on thirty-two plates, from designs drawn by J. Miller, Architect.
Miller, J. (John) (Architect)Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
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Harmonic architecture. Exemplified in a plan, elevations and sections, &c. of a building, with four different fronts, upon an harmonic form or cube, now made octangular; being designed for a museum, in a retired situation of a park or garden: to which is added, a table of parts with two scales, one of Parts and the other of Feet and Inches, for measuring and proportioning the Members to the aforesaid Building. By J. Shortess,
Shortess, J.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
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A book of architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments. By James Gibbs.
Gibbs, James, 1682-1754.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates; Plans of the Offices belonging to each Design, Distributed with a strict Attention to Convenience, Elegance, and Economy. Engraved on thirty-two plates, from designs drawn by J. Miller, Architect.
Miller, J. (John) (Architect)Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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Grotesque architecture, or rural amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, Moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them. By William Wrighte, architect.
Wrighte, William.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- 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. 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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Outlines of designs for shop fronts and door cases, with the mouldings at large, and enrichments to each design.
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)Date: 1792- 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 country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs; for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for Park or Garden Entrances, and ornamental wooden gates; with Plans of the Offices belonging to each Design, Distributed with a strict Attention to Convenience, Elegance, and Economy. Engraved on thirty-two plates; from designs drawn by J. Miller, Architect.
Miller, J. (John) (Architect)Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Familiar architecture; consisting of original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages and summer-retreats; ... To which is added, the masonry of the semicircular and elliptical arches, with practical remarks. By Thomas Rawlins, ...
Rawlins, Thomas.Date: 1768- 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 - 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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A treatise of the five orders in architecture. To which is annex'd, A discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture. Written in French by Claude Perrault, of the Royal Academy of Paris, and made English by John James of Greenwich.
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.Date: M.DCC.XXII. [1722]- Books
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A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture, ... To which is annex'd, a discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture. Engraven on six folio plates ... adorn'd with ... borders, ... initial letters, and ... tail-pieces, b John Sturt. Written in French by Claude Perrault, ... Made English by John James ...
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.Date: [1722?]- Books
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The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, 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, sections, and elevations, 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, ceilings, 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. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot. ... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder.
Carter, John, 1748-1817.Date: [between 1794 and 1817]- Books
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Chinese architecture. Part the second. Being a large collection of designs of their paling of different kinds, lattice work, &c. For Parks, Paddocks, Terminations for Vistos, Ha Ha's, Common Fence and Garden, Paling, both close and open, Chinese Stiles, Stair-Cases, Galleries, Windows, &c. To which are added, Several Designs of Chinese Vessels, Ewers, Ganges Cups, Tureens, Garden Pots, &c. The whole neatly engraved on twelve copper-plates, from real Chinese designs, improved by P. Decker, Architect.
Decker, Paul.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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New designs for Chinese doors, windows, piers, Pilasters, Garden-Seats, Green-Houses, Summer-Houses, &c. ON Sixteen Copper Plates. Together With Instructions to Workmen, Annexed to each particular Design. The Whole Invented and Drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, Architects. Part III. Published according to Act of Parliament.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1755?]- 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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The third edition, with four additional designs of Useful architecture; being the last work in this kind of William Halfpenny, Architect and Carpenter, in twenty-five new designs, with full and clear instructions, in every particular, for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns, with their respective offices, &c. of various Dimensions, at the most moderate Expence, the Largest not exceeding Five Hundred Pounds, and the Smallest under One Hundred Pounds. As will evidently appear By their several Dimensions and Estimates Particularly set forth with Respect both to Brick and Stone, Adapted to the usual Measurement of Great Britain and Ireland Together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only, with Estimates annext in like Manner. The four designs added, are for bridges, which in Rural Situations are generally necessary and always pleasing, being suited to small Pieces of Water, Brooks, &c. and the chief Ornament where Strength with Beauty is needful. The Whole intended as an Improvement of what has hitherto been given on that Subject, and rendered both Practicable and Beneficial to all concerned in Building.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- 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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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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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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The rudiments of architecture: or, the young workman's instructor. In two parts. Part First, Containing The five Orders of Columns entire, with Frontispieces, Doors, Windows, Porticoes, Intercolumniations, and Arcades, suited to each; Rustic Doors and Windows; Block and Cantaliver Cornices; Rustic; Quoins; the manner of constructing Brick and Stone-Arches; Centuring for Groins and Vaulting; Stairs, Twisted Rails, Roofs and Domes; Inspectional Scales, Tables, &c. Directions for Drawing Plans and Elevations with Indian Ink: Likewise, the French and Spanish Orders. Part Second, Containing Geometry; the Mensuration of Solids and Supersicies; Plain Trigonometry, and Surveying of Land. With twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in North Britain. To which is added, the builder's dictionary : Intended for those whose time will not allow them to attend Teachers.
Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- 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]