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Author additional ss Pranker, Robert, engraver.

Period 18th century

1. The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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

3. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

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Date:: 1766-1769
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. [Costumes of Constantinople].

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Creator:: Smith, Francis, 1705–1778 or 1779
Date:: 1768-1769
Physical Description:: [2] pages, XXIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A set of new designs for coach & chariot bodies = Receuil de diverse nouveau desseins en carosses et carosses coupé / by Edw. Abbott, painter.

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Creator:: Abbott, Edward, 1737–1791
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [13] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The cabinet and chair-maker's real friend and companion, or, The whole system of chair making made plain and easy : containing upwards of one hundred new and useful designs for all sorts of chairs ... / the whole invented and drawn by Robert Manwaring : and ... engraved on forty copper plates by Robert Pranker.

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Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 23 p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts