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Architecture, Chinese - Early works to 1800

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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?]
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    Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented. Being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates: Containing A great Variety of Magnificent Buildings accurately Described; AS Also, Several of a Smaller Kind elegantly Design'd, with all necessary Offices, of great Strength, easy Construction, and graceful Appearance. Scales are annexed, and regular Estimates are made for each Design. The Whole carefully calculated by the Great Square; With Instructions to Workmen, &c. in several Pages of Letter-Press. Intended as an Improvement of what has been published of that Sort. Correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, Architects. Published according to Act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.

    Halfpenny, William, d. 1755. | Date: [1752]

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