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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, for Peirs, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney Pieces, Tabernacle Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochps, Pulpits, Types, Altar Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sundials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Ciellings, and Iron Works. Finely engraved on 186 large quarto plate; Proportion by aliquot parts: To which are Prefix's, The Five Orders of Columns; according to Andrea Palladio, whose Members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner, than has been yet done. The Whole interspersed, With sure rules, for Working, all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modilions, &c. The like, for the Immediate Use of workmen never published before, in any Language. By Batty Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- E-books
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The rudiments of ancient architecture , in two parts. Containing an historical account of the five orders, with their proportions and Examples of each from the Antiques; also Vitruvius on the temples and intercolumniations, &c. of the ancients . Calculated for the Use of those who wish to attain a summary Knowledge of the Science of Architecture. With a dictionary of terms. Illustrated with ten plates.
Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- E-books
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The first book of architecture by Andrea Palladio. Translated out of Italian, with an appendix touching doors and windows, by Pr. Le Muet, Architect to the French King. Translated into English, by Godfrey Richards. The whole illustrated with above seventy copper cuts. Also rules and demonstrations, with several Designs, for the framing of any manner of roofs, either Above Pitch, or Under Pitch, whether Square or Bevel; never before Published: by that Ingenious Architect, Mr. William Pope of London. With Designs of Floors of Variety of Small Pieces of Wood Inlaid, lately made in the Palace of Somerset-House; a Curiosity never practised before in England.
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- E-books
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A treatise of the five orders in architecture . To which is annex'd, A discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture. Written in French by Claude Perrault, of the Royal Academy of Paris, and made English by John James of Greenwich.
Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.Date: M.DCC.XXII. [1722]- E-books
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Magnum in parvo: or, the marrow of architecture . Shewing how to draw a column with its base, capital, entablature, and pedestal; ... By William Halfpenny.
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755.Date: 1728