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The carpenter's and joiner's repository or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, For Finishing of Rooms, &c. &c. a Great Variety of Stair-Cases, On a Plan entirely New, and easy to be understood. Circular Circular Soffits, flewing and winding, in straight and circular Walls, Groins, Angle Brackets, circular and elliptical Sky-Lights; and the Method of Squaring and Preparing their circular Bars, Shop Fronts, &c. By W. Pain, joiner. Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- E-books
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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 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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Gothic architecture , improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, Chimney-Pieces, Arcades, Colonades, Porticos, Umbrellos, Temples, and Pavillions &c. With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically executed. By B. & T. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1747- E-books
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The builder's golden rule , or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry, With the most ready practical Methods of executing the same, from the Plan to the Ornamental Finish, in the most prevailing modern Taste. The whole correctly engraved, on 106 copper-plates, with a full Explanation in Letter-Press. To which is added, An estimate of prices for materrals and labour, and Labour only, with References to the respective Designs. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, &c.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]