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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing James, the preparing and making their Soffits. Rules of Carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. - Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their general and particular Parts, Gluing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their ramp and twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the newest Taste. With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Pictures
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An elaborate floral arrangement. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
Briscoe, H.Date: [1870]Reference: 26137i- Pictures
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A woman looking through a level and holding a ruler and compasses, standing in front of a grid; representing perspective. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560-1569Reference: 25856i- Pictures
A woman representing rhetoric. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560Reference: 25857i- Books
Islamic bookbindings in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Duncan Haldane.
Haldane, Duncan.Date: 1983- Books
Courtiers and cannibals, angels and amazons : the art of the decorative cartographic titlepage / Rodney Shirley.
Shirley, Rodney W.Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
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Architecture and memory : the Renaissance studioli of Federico de Montefeltro / Robert Kirkbride.
Kirkbride, RobertDate: [2008], ©2008- Books
I deschi da parto : e la pittura del primo Rinascimento toscano / Cecilia de Carli.
De Carli, Cecilia.Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
The Buddhist art of Nāgārjunakoṇḍa / Elizabeth Rosen Stone.
Stone, Elizabeth Rosen.Date: [1994]- Pictures
Two women holding palms and a wreath below a trophy with two scimitars. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560Reference: 25861i- Books
Cocoa & corsets : a selection of late Victorian and Edwardian posters and showcards from the Stationers' Company copyright records preserved in the Public Record Office / Michael Jubb.
Jubb, Michael.Date: 1984- Pictures
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A woman representing philosophy. Etching by B. Audran the elder, c. 1700, after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Reference: 25986i- Books
Pflanzenmalereien in drei unterfränkischen Kirchen : Ikonographie, Kunstgeschichte und aktuelle Bedeutung in Bezug auf die Entwicklung von Medizin und Pharmazie / Wolfgang Schiedermair.
Schiedermair, Wolfgang.Date: 2007- Pictures
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A marble tablet sculpted in relief with trophies and ornaments illustrating the magnificence of the ancient Romans. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1761.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1761Reference: 568205i- Pictures
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A woman (Juno?) with a staff encircled by a snake and a peacock. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560Reference: 25863i- Books
Adornment : what self-decoration tells us about who we are / Stephen Davies.
Davies, Stephen, 1950-Date: 2020- Pictures
A woman holding an hourglass and a baton; representing arithmetic. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560Reference: 25859i- Books
Woven miniatures of Buddhist art, sazigyo : Burmese manuscript binding tapes / Ralph Isaacs.
Isaacs, Ralph, 1934-Date: 2014- Pictures
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Barbados aloe plant (Aloe vera): flowering plant and floral segments. Colour halftone after J. Lambert, c. 1842, after P. Turpin.
Turpin, P. J. F. (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840.Date: 1842Reference: 26127i- Pictures
The goddess Bellona flanked by two stags; beneath are two gryphons. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1500-1599Reference: 25866i- Pictures
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A goddess (Bellona?) surrounded by stags, rabbits or hares, demons and owls. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560Reference: 25876i- Books
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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director. Being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the gothic, Chinese and modern taste: including a great variety of book-cases for libraries or private rooms. Commodes, library and writing-tables, buroes, breakfast-tables, dressing and china-tables, china-cases, hanging-shelves, tea-chests, trays, fire-screens, chairs, settees, sopha's, beds, presses and cloaths-chests, pier-glass sconces, slab frames, brackets, candle-stands, clock-cases, frets, and other ornaments. To which is prefixed. A short explanation of the five orders of architecture, and rules of perspective; with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large, and the dimensions of each design specified: the whole comprehended in one hundred and sixty copper-plates, neatly engraved. Calculated to improve and refine the present taste, and suited to the fancy and circumstances of persons in all degrees of life. By Thomas Chippendale, of St. Martin's-lane, cabinet-maker.
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.Date: [1754]- Pictures
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A woman representing astrology or philosophy. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Reference: 25694i- Books
Chiesa di San Sebastiano : arte e devozione / testi di Adriana Augusti Ruggeri, Simona Savini Branca.
Augusti Ruggeri, Adriana.Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
Chiesa di San Giobbe : arte e devozione / testi di Andrea Gallo, Giovanna Nepi Scirè.
Gallo, Andrea.Date: [1994], ©1994