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1. A practical treatise on architectural jurisprudence : in which the constitutions, canons, laws and customs relating to the art of building, are collected from the best authorities : for the use of architects, surveyors, landlords, tenants, incumbents, churchwardens and ecclesiastical persons in general / by James Elmes ...

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Creator:: Elmes, James, 1782–1862
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: xv, 279 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Scientific, historical and commercial survey of the harbour and port of London.

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Creator:: Elmes, James, 1782–1862
Date:: 1838
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A general and bibliographical dictionary of the fine arts. Containing explanations of the principal terms used in the arts of painting, sculpture, architecture, and engraving, in all their various branches; historical sketches of the rise and progress of their different schools; descriptive accounts of the best books and treatises on the fine arts; and every useful topic connected therewith. By James Elmes ...

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Creator:: Elmes, James, 1782–1862
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., [vii]-viii, [760] p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A letter to Thomas Hope, esq. hereditary governor and director of the British institution for promoting the fine arts in the United Kingdom ... on the insufficiency of the existing establishments for promoting the fine arts, towards that of architecture and its professors; attempting to show the cause of the decline of pure taste in that branch of the fine arts, and with some limits towards its better encouragement. By James Elmes ...

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Creator:: Elmes, James, 1782–1862
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Memoirs of the life and works of Sir Christopher Wren : with a brief view of the progress of architecture in England, from the beginning of the reign of Charles the First to the end of the seventeenth century : and an appendix of authentic documents / by James Elmes.

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Creator:: Elmes, James, 1782–1862
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: xxxvi, 532, 147 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The arts and artists, or, Anecdotes & relics, of the schools of painting, sculpture & architecture / by James Elmes.

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Creator:: Elmes, James, 1782–1862
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts