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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]- Books
Libraries / [Allan Konya].
Konya, Allan.Date: 1986- 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- Archives and manuscripts
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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
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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]- 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
The new museum : architecture and display / Michael Brawne ; [translated into German: Wolfgang Pehnt].
Brawne, Michael.Date: [1965]- 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
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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- 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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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]- 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]- 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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Sketches in architecture. Containing plans and elevations of cottages villas and other useful buildings with characterstic scenery. By John Soane architect to the Bank of England and member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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How to plan a house : a book for all about to build / by George Gordon Samson.
Samson, George Gordon.Date: 1914- Books
Planning and design of library buildings / Godfrey Thompson.
Thompson, Godfrey, 1921-Date: 1989- Books
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Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, ... on sixty copper plates with full instructions or workmen ... by Willm. & Jno Halfpenny ... Divided into four parts.
Halfpenny, William, -1755.Date: [1752]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- 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]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Ferme ornée; or rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. Consisting Of Fences, Paddock Houses, A Bath, A Dog-Kennel, Pavilions, Farm-Yards, Fishing-Houses, Sporting-Boxes, Shooting-Lodges, Single And Double Cottages, &c. Calculated for landscape and picturesque effects. Engraved on thirty-eight plates. With Appropriate Scenery, Plans, and Explanations. By John Plaw, Architect.
Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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Decorations for parks and gardens. Designed for gates, garden seats, alcoves, temples, baths, entrance gates, lodges, facades, prospects for towers Cattle Sheds, Ruins, Bridges, Greenhouses, &c. &c. also A Hot House & Hot Wall: with plans & scales on 55 plates.
Date: [1800?]- Digital Images
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First floor plan of the home of Mr. le Marquis de Ville -