Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Period: 18th century / Subject Terms: Architecture -- Early works to 1800.

1. The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: [6], 4 pages, [76] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

Creator:: Payne, John, 1710–1771
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 16, [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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.

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.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 16 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a 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 / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.

Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a 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 / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.

Creator:: Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Date:: MDCCXV-MDCCLXXI [1715-1771]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.

Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 64 pl. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Grotesque architecture, or, Rural amusement : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries ... : the whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs ... : to which is added a full explanation, in letter press, and true method of executing them / by William Wrighte.

Creator:: Wrighte, William
Date:: 1767
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... to which is added, a list of prices and materials for labour, labour only, and day prices ... / by William Pain ...

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: v, [30], 24 p., [152] leaves of plates (1 folded) : chiefly ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:: [16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : wherein their pedastals, columns, entablatures, imposts, and arches, are taken from the best examples of the ancients, and proportioned by equal parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy manner, than has been done in any language : for the instruction of apprentices and journeymen, masons and bricklayers ... : and others who desire a just knowledge of the fundamental rule of that noble art / B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: [2], 8 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [70] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1773]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The perspective of architecture : in two parts : a work entirely new, deduced from the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor : and performed by two rules only of universal application : part the first, contains the description and use of a new instrument called the architectonic sector : part the second, a new method of drawing the five orders, elegant structures, &c. in perspective / begun by command of His Present Majesty, when Prince of Wales, by Joshua Kirby, designer in perspective to His Majesty.

Creator:: Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: [6], 82, [2], ii, 60, [2] pages, [1], XXV, LXXII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An essay on architecture.

Creator:: Lowth, Thomas Henry, 1753 or 4–1778
Date:: 1776]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 21 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice : demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry, and architecture, in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations : viz. Vitruvius, Bramante, Julio Romano, Michael Angelo, Carlo Cesare Osio, Andrea Palladio, Vincent Scamozzi, M.J. Barozzio of Vignola, Sebastian Serlio, Daniel Barbaro, L.B. Alberti, P. Cataneo, P. de Lorme, Viola, J. Bullant, Julian Mau-Clerc, J. Berain, Sebastian le Clerc, Claude Perault, Inigo Jones, Sir Christoph. Wren, &c. &c. &c. : and also of the Cariatides, Persians, French, Spanish, and English : together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, portico's, colonades, piazza's, arcades, frontispieces, gates and doors, windows, niches, entablatures, pediments, capitals, festoons, trophies, ballusters, balconies, ballustrades, cieling-pieces, chimney-pieces, floors, pavements, arches, groins, stair-cases, roofs, obelisques, ornaments, &c. : the whole interspersed with critical remarks and observations on each master : illustrated by above three thousand examples, engraved on four hundred and ninety four large folio copper plates : with a dictionarial index, explaining the term of art used herein / by B. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [4], xi, [21], 24, 29-434 pages, CCCCLXXI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:: [12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation : consisting of plans, elevations and sections in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste : calculated for the ornamenting of parks, forests, woods, gardens ... &c. : together with a full explanation, in letter press, to each design, and exact scales for measurement / by Thomas Collins Overton.

Creator:: Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 19, [1] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Palladio Londinensis, or, The London art of building : in three parts. : I. Containing a demonstration of all geometrical problems ... : III. copiously treating of the several kinds of stair-cases : the whole illustrated with fifty-two copper plates : to which is annexed, the builder's dictionary ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: 12, 132, [28] p., [52] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

Creator:: Guarini, Guarino, 1624–1683
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: [8], 307, [1] pages, [80] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. La nvova architettura civile, e militare / di Alessandro Capra, architetto, e cittadino cremonese ; divisa in due tomi, in questa nuova impressione diligentemente corretta, ed accresciuta.

Creator:: Capra, Alessandro, 17th cent
Date:: MDCCXVII [1717]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. 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 [sic].

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: [1], [2] p. : [38] (i.e. 37) leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: xiv p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: [2], 33, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The gentleman's and builder's director, or, A key that openth to your sight at once, brick work ... / by Edward Roman.

Creator:: Roman, Edward
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: 15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases : containing : I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on sixty folio copper-plates / by Abraham Swan.

Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: viii, 20 p., [56] leaves : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary, or, The complete builder's guide : containing an explanation of all the terms of art used by workmen ; as also what is necessary to be known in the art of building ... / originally written and compiled by Richard Neve.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [3], vi-xvi, [376] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio / translated from the original Latin, by W. Newton, architect.

Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. A new and accurate method of delineating all the parts of the different orders in architecture : by means of a well contriv'd, and most easily manag'd instrument; whereon the just proportions of the principal members, and of their several parts, are so disposed, as wholly to avoid the difficulty of the fractional parts that usually attend these operations / English'd from the original Italian of Ottavio Revesi Bruti, by Thomas Malie, Gent.

Creator:: Revesi Bruti, Ottavio
Date:: MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Physical Description:: 52 p., [51] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [20] p., 83 plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The magazine of architecture, perspective, & sculpture : in five parts : Part the first. Geometrical, practical, & usefull [sic] problems ; for ye describing of circles, ovals, arches, groyns (Regular or rampant) & polygons, ye mouldings made use of in architecture; the handrail to stair-cases; ye wreath'd columns; ionic (capital antient & modern) volutes; & to flute columns and pilasters : Part the second. Plain & easy directions, for the construction of ye five orders of architecture , with their imposts & arches, plans, elevations & profiles, (accurately describ'd by feet, inches & parts; likewise by the customary measure of modules & minutes) frontispieces & windows; ornaments for mouldings, capitals & freezes; fretts & flowers; enrich'd pedestals for statues; compartiments [sic] for domes, soffites of arches & pavements; of the proportion and cieling [sic] of rooms; and designs of obelisks : Part the third. On the disposition & regularity of stair-cases; with several necessary improvements, wherein the symetry [sic] requir'd is preserv'd in ye steps & halfpaces, &c. also in ye rangeing [sic] ballisters & ornaments : Part the fourth. A most easy & expeditious method, to delineate in perspective, all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from ye confusion of occult lines : Part the fifth. The parts of human-body describ'd; with ye nature of motion reduc'd to geometrical rules; to which is added, a collection of ye most beautiful antique statues, with their parts describ'd, as measur'd from the originals / engraven on 96 copper plates by Benjn. Cole ; to which is annexed, an alphabetical explanation of ye terms made use of in architecture ; collected from the most approv'd authors, antient & modern, particularly, Palladio, Scamozzi & Vignola, & made a work of general use for gentlemen, architects, sculptors, painters, workmen, & all persons concern'd in building, by Edward Oakley, Architect . M. M.

Creator:: Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:: MDCCXXX [1730]
Physical Description:: [12], 119, [1] p., XCIII leaves of plates : ill., coat of arms, diagrams, plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. An essay in defence of ancient architecture, or, A parallel of the ancient buildings with the modern : , shewing [sic] the beauty and harmony of the former, and the irregularity of the latter : with impartial reflections on the reasons of the abuses introduced by our present builders : to which is annexed an inspectional table, universally useful / by Robert Morris ; illustrated with sixteen copper-plates.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1728
Physical Description:: xxviii, 114, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: [1770 or 1771]
Physical Description:: 102 leaves : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

Creator:: Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756, i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [18], 92, [2], 93-116, [2], 117-120, [2], 121-748, [4] pages, [115] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The city and countrey [sic] purchaser, and builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builder's guide ... / by T.N., philomath.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: [32], 288 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments: also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. with estimates to each design by the great square, and such remarks, explanations and scales are annexed, that the comprehension is rendered easy, and subject most agreeable : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [12], 8 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

Creator:: Aheron, John
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: vi, 110, 8, [20] pages, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Proofs for a selection of plates in Vitruvius Brittanicus, volume 5.

Date:: [1771?]
Physical Description:: 25 prints ; volume 52 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

Creator:: Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [viii], 54 p., illus., plans 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A treatise of architecture : with remarks and observations / by that excellent master thereof Sebastian LeClerc ... ; necessary for young people who would apply to that noble art ; engraven in CLXXXI copper plates by John Sturt ; translated by Mr. Chambers.

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: [6], [181] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A proposition for a new order in architecture : with rules for drawing the several parts / by Henry Emlyn, of Windsor.

Creator:: Emlyn, Henry, 1728 or 1729–1815
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 11, [1] pages, X leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats ... : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [1], [38] leaves of plates (some folded) : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Every man a compleat builder, or, Easy rules and proportions for drawing and working the several parts of architecture ... / the whole nearly engraved on 51 copper plates ; compiled by the late Edward Oakley ... ; to which is annexed, a plan, elevation, and section of the carpenter's work, erected to support the center-arch of Black-Fryers-Bridge.

Creator:: Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 32 p., [52] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Useful architecture : being the last work in this kind of William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter : in twenty-five new designs : with full and clear instructions, in every particular, for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns, with their respective offices, &c. ... : together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only ... : the four designs added, are for bridges ...

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [4], 78 [i.e. 76] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry ... / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus ... ; and engraved by B. Cole.

Creator:: Hoppus, E. (Edward), d. 1739
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 101 p., lxxxiv leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Familiar architecture : consisting of original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages and summer-retreats : with back-fronts, sections, &c. : together with banqueting-rooms, churches, and chimney-pieces : to which is added, the masonry of the semicircular and elliptical arches, with practical remarks / by Thomas Rawlins, architect.

Creator:: Rawlins, Thomas
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1768]
Physical Description:: [2], 30, [2] p., LX leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

Creator:: Skaife, Thomas
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: iv, [8]-387 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and gothic orders of architecture, made easy... : by nearly 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient andmodern, of pedestals, bases, shafts [etc.] ... : engraved on 184 copper plates: wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down ... / by Batty Langley ...

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: xxiv p., [92] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.

Creator:: Laugier, Marc-Antoine, 1711–1769
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: xvi, [2], 272, [8] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture ... : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures ... / by Batty Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: [1790?]
Physical Description:: xxiv, [184] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The elements of civil architecture according to Vitruvius and other ancients and the most approved practice of modern authors, especially Palladio by Henry Aldrich, translated by Philip Smyth.

Creator:: Aldrich, Henry, 1648–1710
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: lxvi, 66 p. 55 plates (incl. plans) 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The Builder's magazine: or, A universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... consisting of designs in architecture in every stile and taste ... together with the plans and sections ... / By a society of architects.

Date:: MDCC LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [4], 345, [1], 100 p., CLXXXV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on sixty folio copper- plates. By Abraham Swan, carpenter.

Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: viii, 20 p. LX plates. 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

Creator:: Robinson, William, approximately 1744–
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [32] leaves, 33-47 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:: [8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. [Plans, elevations, and section for Carshalton House]

Creator:: Leoni, Giacomo, approximately 1686–1746
Date:: [1728?]
Physical Description:: 8 prints : etching ; plate marks 35 x 76 cm, or smaller, on sheets 66 x 97 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Convenient and ornamental architecture : consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections : beginning with the farm house and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : ... / by John Crunden ; the whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates by Isaac Taylor.

Creator:: Crunden, John, ca. 1745–1835
Date:: 1767,
Physical Description:: viii, iv, 26 p. : 70 (i.e. 56) plates ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:: [12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The principles of ancient masonry, or, A general system of building compleated : wherein the theory and practice of architecture are universally demonstrated : comprising all the arts and sciences necessary to be understood for the attaining a just knowledge of building, in a more concise and easy manner than has been yet attempted to be made public, viz : arithmetick, vulgar and decimal : practical geometry : plain trigonometry : mensuration in general : surveying of land, &c. : architecture universally apply'd : perspective : mechanicks : dialing : painting and staining glass : interspersed with proper introductions, remarks, and observations : in which great care is taken to omit everything that is superfluous, and insert nothing but what is really useful : the whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty large folio copper plates, engraven by the best hands : exemplifying the several arts and proportions of the five order of columns, in a very great variety of useful designs of plans, elevations, and sections of building in general : by a society of the most experienced practitioners and workmen in building, and the several branches of learning relating thereto.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1733
Physical Description:: [2], 434, xi, [23] pages : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste : being above fifty intire [sic] new designs of plans, sections, elevations,&c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks,forests, woods, canals, &c. ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on fifty four copper-plates from the designs of Charles Over, architect.

Creator:: Over, Charles
Date:: 1758
Physical Description:: 8 p., [54] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor ... : with twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in north Britain : to which is added, The builder's dictionary: intended for those whose time will not allow them to attend teachers.

Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [8], 127, [1], 2, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings (some folded) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. 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 ... / by J. Shortess.

Creator:: Shortess, J
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., [2] p. : 8 plates ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. A treatise on the five orders of architecture : in which the principles of that art are illustrated by elegant and correct examples, ... accompanied with observations made on several of the antiquities at Rome, and various parts of Italy, ... and ... France, ... / by George Richardson, architect = Traité des cinq ordres d'architecture, ... par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:: x, 32, [2] pages, xxii leaves of plates : illustrations ; 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The builder's sketch book, or, The youth's pocket companion : containing a great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [42], 52 p., 48 plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The city and country purchaser, and Builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builders guide ... / by Richard Neve.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1726
Physical Description:: [12], xx, [288] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Vignola revived : wherein is shown the true and most elegant proportions of the five orders as laid down by that great master : illustrated by two hundred and twenty-seven designs of palaces and other magnificent buildings : executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere : neatly engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates : adapted not only to the general use of architecture, but herein particular subjects are treated with the greatest accuracy, viz. : the five orders; columns, symbolical, &c. &c. doors, windows, niches, &c. cornishes, French and Italian ; ballustrades, mosaic work, mouldings, &c., sections of rooms, with designs for furniture; ornamental iron-work for various purposes; temples, grotto's, and summer retreats, for parks, gardens, &c. plan, elevations, and sections of the castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a church, pallaces [sic], &c. : with many other particulars relative to the art of building.

Creator:: Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653–1701
Date:: MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The qualifications and duty of a surveyor explained in a letter to the right honourable the Earl of ****** : in which the essential accomplishements are particularly descrived and considered : necessary to be perused by all persons concerned in building.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 28 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The first book of Andrea Palladio's Architecture : treating of the five orders : and what is most necessary in building : correctly drawn from his original work, publish'd by himself at Venice, Anno 1570 : and accurately engraved by I. Ware.

Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: 1742
Physical Description:: viii, 63, [1] p., 34 [i.e. 29] plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

5. Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley.

9. The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... to which is added, a list of prices and materials for labour, labour only, and day prices ... / by William Pain ...

12. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

13. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

14. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

15. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

16. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

18. An essay on architecture.

20. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

23. Architettura civile, del padre d. Guarino Guarini cherico regolare : opera postuma.

24. La nvova architettura civile, e militare / di Alessandro Capra, architetto, e cittadino cremonese ; divisa in due tomi, in questa nuova impressione diligentemente corretta, ed accresciuta.

25. 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 [sic].

26. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

27. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

28. The gentleman's and builder's director, or, A key that openth to your sight at once, brick work ... / by Edward Roman.

30. The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary, or, The complete builder's guide : containing an explanation of all the terms of art used by workmen ; as also what is necessary to be known in the art of building ... / originally written and compiled by Richard Neve.

32. The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio / translated from the original Latin, by W. Newton, architect.

34. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

37. The ornamental architect, or, Young artists instructor : consisting of the five orders, drawn by aliquot parts, with their embellishments &c. elegantly engrav'd on (102) folio plates by various masters ...

38. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

39. The city and countrey [sic] purchaser, and builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builder's guide ... / by T.N., philomath.

42. A general treatise of architecture : in five books ... / by John Aheron, architect.

43. Proofs for a selection of plates in Vitruvius Brittanicus, volume 5.

44. Elementa architecturae civilis ad Vitruvii veterumque disciplinam, et recentiorum praesertim a Paladii exempla probatiora concinnata. Auctore Henrico Aldrich.

45. A treatise of architecture : with remarks and observations / by that excellent master thereof Sebastian LeClerc ... ; necessary for young people who would apply to that noble art ; engraven in CLXXXI copper plates by John Sturt ; translated by Mr. Chambers.

46. A proposition for a new order in architecture : with rules for drawing the several parts / by Henry Emlyn, of Windsor.

47. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats ... : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane.

50. The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry ... / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus ... ; and engraved by B. Cole.

52. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

54. An essay on the study and practice of architecture : explained by the true principles of the science ... : illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved ... : to which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.

55. The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture ... : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures ... / by Batty Langley.

56. The elements of civil architecture according to Vitruvius and other ancients and the most approved practice of modern authors, especially Palladio by Henry Aldrich, translated by Philip Smyth.

57. The Builder's magazine: or, A universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... consisting of designs in architecture in every stile and taste ... together with the plans and sections ... / By a society of architects.

60. Proportional architecture, or, The five orders : regulated by equal parts : after so concise a method that renders it useful to all artists and easy to every capacity : to which is added a practical and familiar explanation of the terms herein used.

62. [Plans, elevations, and section for Carshalton House]

68. 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 ... / by J. Shortess.

70. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

71. The builder's sketch book, or, The youth's pocket companion : containing a great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only.

72. The city and country purchaser, and Builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builders guide ... / by Richard Neve.

75. The qualifications and duty of a surveyor explained in a letter to the right honourable the Earl of ****** : in which the essential accomplishements are particularly descrived and considered : necessary to be perused by all persons concerned in building.

76. The first book of Andrea Palladio's Architecture : treating of the five orders : and what is most necessary in building : correctly drawn from his original work, publish'd by himself at Venice, Anno 1570 : and accurately engraved by I. Ware.