Architecture - Designs and plans - Early works to 1800
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The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot. ... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder.
Carter, John 1748-1817.Date: 1794- E-books
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New designs for Chinese doors , windows, piers, Pilasters, Garden-Seats, Green-Houses, Summer-Houses, &c. ON Sixteen Copper Plates. Together With Instructions to Workmen, Annexed to each particular Design. The Whole Invented and Drawn by Will. and John Halfpenny, Architects. Part III. Published according to Act of Parliament.
Halfpenny, William d. 1755.Date: 1755- E-books
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Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British architect , containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private, in Great Britain, with variety of new designs; in 200 large folio plates. Engraven by the best hands; and drawn either from the buildings themselves or the original designs of the architects; in II volumes ... by Colen Campbell Esqr. = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou l'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des bâtimens reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne, comprisen 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des bâtimens memes, ou copiez des desseins originaux des architectes: en deux tomes. ... Par le Sieur Campbell. Cum privilegio regis.
Campbell, Colen 1676-1729.Date: 1722- E-books
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Outlines of designs for shop fronts and door cases, with the mouldings at large, and enrichments to each design
I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, England)Date: 1792- E-books
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Harmonic architecture Exemplified in a plan, elevations and sections, &c. of a building, with four different fronts, upon an harmonic form or cube, now made octangular; being designed for a museum, in a retired situation of a park or garden: to which is added, a table of parts with two scales, one of Parts and the other of Feet and Inches, for measuring and proportioning the Members to the aforesaid Building. By J. Shortess,.
Shortess, J.Date: 1741