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1. Edward Ryland : copper plate printer in the Old Bailey near Ludgate Hill, London.

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Creator:
Ryland, Edwd. (Edward), active approximately 1762–1775
Date:
[ca. 1760]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 27 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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

3. A description of the city, college, and cathedral of Winchester. Exhibiting a complete and comprehensive detail of their antiquities and present state. The whole illustrated with several curious and authentic particulars, collected from a manuscript of Anthony Wood ... ; the college and cathedral registers, and other original authorities, never before published ...

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Creator:
Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:
[etc., etc., 1750]
Physical Description:
108 p. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Letters from a young painter abroad to his friends in England : adorned with copper plates.

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Creator:
Russel, James, ca. 1720–1763
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A view of the Seraglio of the Gd. Seignior & part of Constantinople = Vue du Serrail du Gd. Seigneur, et d'une partie de Constantinople ... / Chatelain, del.

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Date:
1750
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 38 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [A collection of broadsides / by Adam Toppin].

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Creator:
Toppin, Adam, b. 1701
Date:
[1750s or 1760s?]
Physical Description:
44 broadsides : ill. ; 14-36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. [Advertisements of publishers of architectural books]

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Date:
[ca. 1750]-1841
Physical Description:
76 pieces. ill. 18-43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Lucina sine concubitu : a letter humbly address'd to the Royal Society : with 3 engravings on copper by Hester Sainsbury.

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Creator:
Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Date:
MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:
[4], 40, [3] pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A supplement to the four volumes of the Peerage of England : containing a succession of the peers from 1740 : with accounts of those that have been promoted to higher titles, and a genealogical history of all the families since advanced to the peerage of this kingdom ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters, curiously engraven on copper plates : collected from records, authentick manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities ... / by Arthur Collins ...

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
2 v. (viii, 820 p.) : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Earnest and affectionate address to the people of England concerning the usual recreations on Shrove Tuesday.

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Creator:
Tucker, Josiah, 1712–1799
Date:
[1750]
Physical Description:
10 p. ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen; also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected. The whole invented & drawn by Willm. & Inn. Halfpenny ...

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
4 pt. in 1 v. 64 plates (part fold.) 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Cabinet maker's pattern book].

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Date:
[175-?]
Physical Description:
93 leaves : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The reflector; representing human affairs, as they are; and may be improved ...

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Creator:
Shaw, Peter, 1694–1763
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
xx, 371 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A specimen / by William Caslon, letter-founder, in Chiswell-street, London.

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Creator:
Caslon, William, 1693–1766
Date:
[1750 or 1751]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 51 x 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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

16. 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.

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

17. A view of Constantinople : taken from the Helespont = Vue de Constantinople : prise de l'Helespont / J. Mason, sculp. ; P. Chatelain, del.

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Creator:
Mason, James, 1710–1783
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 38 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The art and the pleasures of hare-hunting : in six letters to a person of quality / by John Smallman Gardiner, gent.

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Creator:
Gardiner, John Smallman
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
viii, 56 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A naval expositor : shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea : also all species that are received into the magazines, and on what services they are used and issued : together with the titles of all the inferior officers belonging to a ship, with an abridgment of their respective duties / by Thomas Riley Blanckley.

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Creator:
Blanckley, Thomas Riley
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
[8], 191, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A view of Claremount : one of the seats of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle = Vue de Claremount : une des maisons de plaisance du duc de Newcastle / par J. Rocque.

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Creator:
Bonneau, J
Date:
1750
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 30 x 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Illustrations to Aesop's Fables]

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Creator:
Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:
[175-?]
Physical Description:
32 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A new drawing book.

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Date:
[175-?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Parentalia, or, Memoirs of the family of the Wrens : viz. of Mathew bishop of Ely, Christopher dean of Windsor, &c but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren ... : in which is contained, besides his works, a great number of original papers and records; on religion, politicks, anatomy, mathematicks, architecture, antiquities; and most branches of polite literature / comp. by his son Christopher; now published by his grandson, Stephen Wren, esq. ; with the care of Joseph Ames ...

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Date:
1750
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [4], iii-xii, 368 (i.e. 343), [4] p. : ill., ports. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A curious collection of beasts, horses, and birds : copied from the best masters : very useful to draw after : in four parts.

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Date:
[ca. 1750]
Physical Description:
25 leaves : all ill. ; 22 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Aesop's fables.

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Date:
ca. 1750]
Physical Description:
24 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts