Architecture - Designs and plans
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Designs in architecture consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating Pleasure - Ground, Parks, Forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soan.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- E-books
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A collection of designs in architecture , containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With A great Variety of Sections of rooms; from a common Room, to the most grand and magnificent. their decorations, viz. Bases, Surbases, Architraves, Freezes, and Cornices, properly inriched with Foliages, Frets and Flowers, in a New and Grand Taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for Practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges, Extending from Twenty Feet to Two Hundred and Twenty, in One Arch. Likewise some Screens and Pavilions. In Two Volumes. Each containing Sixty Plates, curiously engraved on Copper. By Abraha Swan, Architect.
Abraham SwanDate: M.D.CCLVII. [1757]- E-books
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Essays on Gothic architecture , by the Rev. T. Warton, Rev. J. Bentham, Captain Grose, and the Rev. J. Milner. (with A Letter To The Publisher.) Illustrated with ten plates of ornaments, &c. selected from ancient buildings; Calculated To exhibit the various Styles of different Periods.
Date: 1800- E-books
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The carpenter's pocket directory containing, the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts, as floors; roofs in ledgment, their Lengths and Backings; trussed roofs, spires, and domes; Trussing-Girders, Partitions, and Bridges, with Abutments; Centering for Arches, Vaults, &c. cutting Stone Ceilings, Groins, &c. with their Moulds; Centers for drawing Gothic Arches, Ellipses, &c. &c. With the plan and sections of a barn. Engraved on twenty-four plates, with explanations, forming the most complete and useful Work of the Kind yet published. By William Pain, Architect and Carpenter, Author of the Practical Builder, and the Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- E-books
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Designs in architecture , consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. Engraved on 38 copper-plates. By John Soane, Architect, member of the Royal Academies of parma and florence.
Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]