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Period 18th century

Language English

Work Type engraving

Image Use Under Certain Circumstances

Subject Terms Architecture -- Details -- 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 practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:: [16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

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Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: anno MDCCXXXVII [1738]
Physical Description:: [12], 110, [212] leaves of plates : illustrations 41 cm (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. Variety of capitals, freezes, and corniches : and how to increase, or decrease them, still retaining the same proportion as the original : likewise 12 designs for chimney pieces, drawn an inch and a half to a foot, the whole consisting of 12 plates / published according to act of parliament in the year 1776 by P. Columbani.

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Creator:: Columbani, Placido
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 12, [1] leaves : illustrations ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs / by Isaac Ware ... in which are interspersed some designs of Inigo Jones, never before published.

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Creator:: Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756, i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [18], 92, [2], 93-116, [2], 117-120, [2], 121-748, [4] pages, [115] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A compleat body of architecture : wherein the five orders are exactly described in many elegant examples, with scales annexed, giving their true aliquot parts : embellished with a great variety of ornaments adapted thereto : augmented by several new designs, never before published, drawn by the greatest masters and engraved at an unspared expence, on one hundred and two folio copper plates ... / compiled, drawn, and engraved, by Matthias Darly, professor of ornament.

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Creator:: Darly, Matthias
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, CII [i.e., 101] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Andrea Palladio's Five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell, Esq; ; author of Vitruvius Britannicus ; to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

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Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXIX. [1729]
Physical Description:: [8], 66 p., XXXI, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture : illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by old Rooker, old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands / by Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. ...

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Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [1], 8-137, [1] pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books : containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary observations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways., bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans, sections, & elevations. The whole containing 226 folio copper-plates / carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edwd. Hoppus Surveyor to ye corporation of the London Assurance and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.

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Creator:: Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [7]-250, [12] p., [206] leaves of plates ([12] folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

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Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts