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A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture. Illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by Old Rooker, Old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands. By Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. surveyor general of His Majesty's works; treasurer, and member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London; also of those of Paris, and Florence. FRS. FAS. FSSS.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- 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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A book of architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments. By James Gibbs.
Gibbs, James, 1682-1754.Date: Printed MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
In praise of patterned papers : a collection of essays / by Paul Nash [and others] ; with an introduction by Tanya Schmoller.
Nash, Paul, 1889-1946.Date: 1997- Books
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An early London printing house at work : studies in the Bowyer ledgers : with a supplement to the Bowyer ornament stock (1973), an appendix on the Bowyer-Emonson partnership, and Bowyer's Paper stock ledger, by Herbert Davis / Keith Maslen.
Maslen, K. I. DDate: 1993- 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, chinmey-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 prefixed, 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: 1736- Books
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Observations on the poisonous vegetables which are either indigenous in Great-Britain, or Cultivated for ornament. By B. Wilmer, Surgeon
Wilmer, Bradford.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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New and rare beautiful-leaved plants : containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliaged plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject / by Shirley Hibberd.
Date: 1870- Books
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Useful and ornamental designs in architecture. Composed in the manner of the antique, and most approved taste of the present day. The whole being peculiarly adapted for execution. By Richard Morrison, architect.
Morrison, Richard, 1767-1849.Date: 1793- Books
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The ornaments of the statute book given to the College by Doctor Caius in December 1557.
Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.Date: 26 January 1911- Books
A drop of nourishment for people / by Nāgārjuna & The Jewel ornament, a commentrary / translated from the Mongolian by Stanley Frye.
Nāgārjuna, active 2nd century.Date: 1981- Books
La gravure des fers à dorer / Julien Fléty.
Fléty, Julien.Date: [1984], ©1984- Books
The ideal book or book beautiful : a tract on calligraphy, printing, and illustration, and on the book beautiful as a whole / by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson.
Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James), 1840-1922.Date: 1978- Books
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Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs and plans and elevations, &c. from the Imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China. ... The whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, ... adapted to this climate, by P. Decker, ...
Decker, Paul.Date: 1759- Books
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Specimen of brass card borders, and other ornaments, on an entire new principle, By C. & A. Paas, engravers to their Majesties.
C. &. A. Paas (London, England)Date: [1793]- Books
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Specimen of metal cast ornaments, curiously adjusted to paper, by Edmund Fry and Co. Letter-founders to the Prince of Wales, Type-Street.
Fry and Steele.Date: 1793- Books
Fore-edge painting : a historical survey of a curious art in book decoration / by Carl J. Weber.
Weber, Carl J. (Carl Jefferson), 1894-1966.Date: 1966- Books
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Polygraphice; or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming : In four books. Exemplifyed, in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countries, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments; the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities ... together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting / by William Salmon.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1673- Books
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Advice to ladies, gentlewomen, and others : The doctor's wife in Dean's[-]Court, famous for the cure of all female distempers, having left off for some time, for the sake of her health, now, through God's blessing, is enabled to led her best help to those of her sex.
Date: [1680]- Pictures
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Cabinet-making: design for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
Verchère, J.Reference: 41843i- Pictures
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Cabinet-making: designs for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
Verchère, J.Reference: 41846i- Pictures
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Cabinet-making: design for a glass-fronted bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself.
Verchère, J.Reference: 41839i- Pictures
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Cabinet-making: designs for a bookcase. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
Verchère, J.Reference: 41845i- Books
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The ladies cabinet enlarged and opened : containing many rare secrets and rich ornaments of several kindes, and different uses, comprized under three general heads viz. of 1. preserving, conserving, candying &c. 2. Physick and chirurgery. 3. Cookery and housewifety : whereunto is added sundry experiments and choice extractions of waters, oyls, &c. / collected and practised by the late right honourable and learned chymist, the Lord Ruthuen.
M. BDate: 1655- Books
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The farmer's boy; a rural poem, in four books. By Robert Bloomfield. With ornaments engraved in wood by Anderson.
Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823.Date: MDCCC. [1800]