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The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples, Improved from the best authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces, Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. Proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts. Engraved on 184 Copper Plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to draw from and work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1767- Books
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The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste: Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c. Together with a full Explanation, in Letter Press, to each Design, and exact Scales for Measurement. By Thomas Collins Overton.
Overton, Thomas Collins.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The chimney-Piece-Maker's daily assistant, or, a treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces: beginning with the most plain and simple, and gradually ascending to the most grand and magnificent, in the Antique, Modern, Ornamental and Gothic Taste; proper to be executed in Halls, Salones, Vestibules, Guard Rooms, State Rooms, Parlours, Dining Rooms, Drawing Rooms, Anti Rooms, Music Rooms, Cabinets, Bed Rooms, Dressing Rooms, &c. Together with a table shewing the just proportions they bear to the above several and respective rooms. The Whole neatly engraved on Fifty-Four Copper-Plates, From the original drawings of Thomas Milton, John Crunden, and Placido Columbani, Architects.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Grotesque architecture, or rural amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavillions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green Houses, &c. Many of which may be executed With Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees. The whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs, beautifully engraved on Copper Plates, with Scales to each. to which is added, a full explanation, in letter press, and the true method of executing them. By William Wrighte, architect.
Wrighte, William.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The smith's right hand, or a complete guide to the various branches of all sorts of iron work. Divided into three parts. Part I. containing Near Forty genteel, new, and beautiful Designs, for Philadelphia, Venetian, Chinese, Gothic, Modern, Ornamental, Bath, and French Stoves. Calculated for the Universal Use of Stove-Grate-Makers, Smiths, Ironmongers, Braziers, Forgers, Japanners, &c. And particularly intended to furnish Noblemen and Gentlemen with Variety of Choice. Amongst the Designs published in this Book is a beautiful Bath Stove, executed at a Gentleman's House near Bond-Street; and which is universally allowed to be the only Method to prevent Chimneys from smoaking at all Times, and during all Weather. The whole neatly engraved from the original drawings, made by Messrs. W. and J. Welldon, Smiths.
W. and J. Welldon (Smiths)Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated Both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. With a Reference and Explanation, in Letter-Press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurement. By John Crunden, architect. The whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates, by Isaac Taylor.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: 1767- Books
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The impartialist. A poem. By T. Underwood, Author of the Snarlers.
Underwood, Thomas, 1739 or 1740-Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The snarlers. A poem.
Underwood, Thomas, 1739 or 1740-Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Original designs of temples, and other ornamental buildings for parks and gardens, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste. By Tho. Collins Overton.
Overton, Thomas Collins.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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Designs for chimnies: and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. To which is added, A concise, but clear Description of the Five Orders, regulated by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts. With some Observations on Rules and Methods used in Drawing. The whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect.
Swan, Abraham.Date: [1765]- Books
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To the nobility and gentry, and to every individual concerned in building; but particularly to all architects, surveyors, carpenters, joyners, bricklayers, masons, plaisterers, stucco-workers, papier machée-makers, ornament-modellers, cabinet and chair-makers, upholsterers, coach-makers, painters, plumbers, stove-grate-makers, and smiths, &c. October 1st. 1766. This day were published, the following very useful books, printed for and sold by Henry Webley, at his original shop for books of architecture, perspective, &c. in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane; and are also sold by the principal booksellers at all the chief cities and noted towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Large allowance made to those who export them abroad.
Webley, Henry.Date: 1766]- Books
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Encaustic: or, Count Caylus's method of painting in the manner of the ancients. To which is added a sure and easy method for fixing of crayons. By J. H. Müntz.
Müntz, John Henry, 1727-1798.Date: 1760