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

1. 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

2. A specimen of ancient carpentry : consisting of variety of designs for roofs ... : collected by James Smith : to which are added designs of frontispieces to doors, gateways, piers ... : & other useful decorations never before published by Jones ; the whole illustrated with 66 copper plates nearly engraven.

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Creator:: Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [5], [3], [66] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A book of ornaments in the Palmyrene taste containing upwards of sixty new designs for ceilings, pannels, pateras & mouldings, and with the raffle leaves at large / by N. Wallis, architect.

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Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: Sep. 20, 1771
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : explaining, short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... / by B. and T. Langley.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 32 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The builder's sketch book, or, The youth's pocket companion : containing a great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [42], 52 p., 48 plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts