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The origin of building: or, the plagiarism of the heathens detected. In five books. By John Wood, architect.
Wood, John, 1704-1754.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Pictures
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St Paul's School, London, England. Etching by Owen after J.P. Neale, 1814.
Neale, John Preston, 1771?-1847.Date: 1 May 1814Reference: 24461i- Books
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The country builder's estimator: or, the architect's companion. For estimating of new buildings, or repairing of old: In a concise and easy Method, entirely new; and of Use to Gentlemen, or their Stewards; Master-Workmen, Artificers, or any Person that undertakes or lets out work. Wherein The several Artificers Works concerned in Building, and every Article belonging to each of them are fully, distinctly, and separately considered; and the Prices thereof inserted, not only of the Workmanship, but of the Materials also, and what Quantity of Materials are required to the Performance thereof; with the Manner of taking Dimensions, Measuring and Valuing the same. Also a new method to show what light is proper for any room, and the Proportion that the Windows, Chimnies, and Funnels ought to have by a Universal Rule. To which is added, several new tables, (never before published) for the valuing of oak, or any other Timber that is squared and cut to any Scantling or size fit for Building. By William Salmon, jun. Of Colchester in Essex. The fourth edition. Carefully revised and corrected, with many large Additions and Alterations interspersed thoughout the Whole. By E. Hoppus, Surveyor.
Salmon, William, approximately 1703-1779.Date: 1752- Pictures
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A street of wooden houses in Mora, with a church terminating the vista.
Date: [approximately 1910]Reference: 529872iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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The history of Essex, from the earliest period to the present time / Illustrated with accurate engravings of churches, monuments, ancient buildings, seals, portraits, autographs, &c. With biographical notices of the most distinguished and remarkable natives.
Ogborne, Elizabeth, 1759-1853.Date: 1814- Books
Living with buildings : and walking with ghosts : on health and architecture / Iain Sinclair.
Sinclair, Iain, 1943-Date: 2018- Pictures
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Corpus Christi College and St. Botolph's Church, Oxford. Line engraving by J. & H.S. Storer after W. Wilkins.
Reference: 20481i- Books
Chiesa del Redentore : arte e devozione / testi di Andrea Gallo, Fiorella Spadavecchia.
Gallo, Andrea.Date: [1994], ©1994- 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 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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Fifty small original, and elegant views of the most splendid churches, villages, rural prospects. and masterly pieces of architecture, adjacent to London. Drawn by the Eminent Mr. Chatelain, and Design'd for the Improvement of Such Gentlemen and Ladies as have a Taste for Drawing and Colouring, or are Delighted with the several Exhibitions, of the Diagonal Mirror.
Chatelain, Jean Baptiste Claude, 1710?-1771?.Date: [1750?]- Books
Notes on Exeter Cathedral / by the Rev. H.E. Bishop ; with preface by the Very Rev. The Dean.
Bishop, Herbert Eustace.Date: 1932- Books
L'art chrétien primitif et l'art byzantin / [Charles Diehl].
Diehl, Charles, 1859-1944.Date: 1928- Books
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A tour through Normandy, described in a letter to a friend.
Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713-1785.Date: [1754]- Pictures
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Christ Church, Oxford: interior of hall. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1833, after F. Mackenzie.
Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 1788-1854.Date: 1 February 1833Reference: 20450i- Pictures
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Merton College, Oxford: the church. Aquatint by J. Merigot after A.C. Pugin.
Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832.Reference: 20630i- Books
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The history of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches. Being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum: Containing The Original and first Establishment of all the Religious Orders that ever were in Great-Britain; being those of the Benedictins, Cluniacks, Cistercians, Regular Canons of St. Augustin, Carthusians, Gilbertins, Trinitarians, Premonstratenses, and Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, treated of in the Monasticon Anglicanum: As also of the Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, Augustinian Friers, Regular Canons of Arroasia, Brigittins, Monks of Fontevrand, of Savigni, and of Tiron, Crouched Friers, Friers of Penance, or of the Sack, and Bethleemites, not spoken of by Sir William Dugdale, and Mr. Dodsworth. The foundations of their several Monasteries. A very large Collection of many hundreds of Grants and Charters belonging to them, besides several thousands abridg'd. The final Suppression of all those Places, with some Account of the manner how their vast Lands and Possessions were dispos'd of. There are added Catalocues of the Abbats, and other Superiors of those religious Houses, and of all Persons eminent, and distinguish'd for Piety, Learning, and other Accomplishments, in the several Orders; with short Lives of as many of them as have been transmitted down to us. Collected from above Two hundred of the best Historians extant, and from antient Manuscripts in the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and many more in the Hands of learned Antiquaries, and other curious Gentlemen, whose Names may be seen in the Preface. Adorn'd with a considerable Number of Copper-Plates of the several Habits of the religious Orders, the Ichnographies of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and the Ruins of sacred Places destroy'd, or gone to Decay, and Prospects of others that are still standing. By John Stevens, Gent. ...
Stevens, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Pictures
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Christ Church, Oxford: halls of residence. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley, 1866, after J. Gascoine after T.N. Deane.
Gascoine, John.Date: 12 May 1866Reference: 20465i- Books
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An history of marine architecture. Including an enlarged and progressive view of the nautical regulations and naval history, both civil and military, of all nations, especially of Great Britain; derived chiefly from original manuscripts, as well in private collections as in the great public repositories: and deduced from the earliest period to the present time. In three volumes. ... By John Charnock, Esq. F.S.A.
Charnock, John, 1756-1807.Date: MDCCC [1800]- Books
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Observations on the origin and antiquity of round churches; and of the round church at Cambridge in particular. By Mr. James Essex, F.A.S. Read at the Society of Antiquaries, May 24, 1781.
Essex, James, 1722-1784.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Pictures
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Architecture: trusses in Camden Chapel. Engraving by A. Dick, 1847, after M. A. Nicholson.
Nicholson, Michael Angelo, approximately 1796-1841.Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 44229i- Pictures
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Christ Church, Oxford: interior of staircase leading to the hall. Etching by A.L. Brunet Debaines.
Brunet-Debaines, A. (Alfred), 1845-1939Reference: 20455i- Pictures
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Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire: panoramic view. Engraving by Woolnoth, 1815, after J. Goldsmith.
Goldsmith, J.Date: 1 March 1815Reference: 22623i- Pictures
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Architecture: decorative ironwork at Westminster Abbey. Wood engraving.
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Dome of the Rock in the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.
Pâris, Edmond, 1806-1893.Date: [1862]Reference: 38237iPart of: Souvenirs de Jérusalem- Pictures
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Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk: from the river. Etching by E. Slocombe.
Slocombe, Edward, 1850-Reference: 20019i