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Subject Terms Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800.

Subject Terms Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- England -- Early works to 1800.

1. The complete modern joiner, or, A collection of original designs in the present taste for chimney-pieces and door-cases : with their mouldings and enrichments at large, frizes, tablets, ornaments for pilasters, bases, sub-bases and cornices for rooms, &c. : with a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures to rooms of any size / by N. Wallis, Architect.

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Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1772]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

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Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new book of ornaments containing a variety of elegant designs for modern pannels [sic] commonly executed in stucco, wood, or painting, and used in decorating principal rooms = Un recueil des ornemens composés, lorsqu'on voudra s'en servir : pour embellir des chambres à l'Angloise = A chiunque piacerà di servirsi di queste idee : serviranno ad accorciar' tempo, con non poco risparmio di fatica, a chi avrá 'l carico di decorar' camere etc. / by P. Columbani ; published according to Act of Parliament. Feb. 15, 1775.

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Creator:: Columbani, Placido
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 32 leaves of plates: chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts