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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Period 18th century

Creator Morris, Robert, 1701–1754

Classification Books

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

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

2. 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.

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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

3. 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 ...

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

4. 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 ...

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

5. 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.

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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

6. 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.

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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

7. 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.

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