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Period 18th century

Associated Places Great Britain

Image Use Under Certain Circumstances

Subject Terms Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800.

1. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer : either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

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Creator:: Wood, John, -1782
Date:: MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:: [2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

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Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design ... / by J. Miller, architect.

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Creator:: Miller, J. (John), architect
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 32 plates, 4 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Oikidia, or, Nutshells : being ichnographic distributions for small villas : chiefly upon oconomical [sic] principles : in seven classes : with occasional remarks / by Jose Macpacke, a bricklayer's labourer ; part the first, containing twelve designs.

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Creator:: Peacock, James, 1738?-1814
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: [4], 89, [3] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs : being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described : dutch, and other barns, cow-houses, stables, sheep-cots, huts, facades : with all offices appertaining to a well regulated farm : their situations rendered convenient, and aspects agreeable : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use / designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect ; and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper plates.

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Creator:: Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 25 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs : for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges ... and ornamental wooden gates / ... engraved on thirty-two plates : from designs drawn by J. Miller.

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Creator:: Miller, J. (John), architect
Physical Description:: 32 plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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