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The country gentleman's pocket companion, and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture. Containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, Temples, Summer-Houses, Lodges, Huts, Grotto's, &c. in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste, With proper Directions annexed. Also, an exact estimate of their severa amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable. Correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates, from the designs, and under the direction of William and John Halfpenny, architects.
- Halfpenny, William, -1755.
- Date
- MDCCLIII. [1753]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for, and sold by Robert Sayer, at the Golden-Buck, opposite to Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, MDCCLIII. [1753]
Physical description
[2],14p.,plates ; 80.
References note
ESTC T166817
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Languages
- English