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1. Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.

Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.
Creator:
Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Date:
MDCCXV-MDCCLXXI [1715-1771]
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. New designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for various buildings, comprised in XLIV folio plates / designed and engraved by George Richardson = Nouveaux desseins d'architecture, ou, Plans, elévations, et coupes de divers bâtimens : compris en XLIV planches in folio / dessinées et gravées par George Richardson architecte.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
[2], 40 pages, [2], XLIV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

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Creator:
Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:
MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

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Creator:
Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:
MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:
2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books : of painting in three books and of statuary in one book : translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli : and now first into English, and divided into three volumes / by James Leoni, Venetian, architect ; to which are added several designs of his own, for buildings both public and private.

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Creator:
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404–1472
Date:
MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments: also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. with estimates to each design by the great square, and such remarks, explanations and scales are annexed, that the comprehension is rendered easy, and subject most agreeable : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[12], 8 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats ... : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soane.

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[1], [38] leaves of plates (some folded) : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Proofs for a selection of plates in Vitruvius Brittanicus, volume 5.

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Date:
[1771?]
Physical Description:
25 prints ; volume 52 x 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
xiv p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks and other buildings : for decorating pleasure-ground, parks, forests, &c., &c. : engraved on 38 copper-plates / by John Soan [sic].

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[1], [2] p. : [38] (i.e. 37) leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Fabbriche' antiche' / disegnate' da Andrea Palladio Vicentino e date in luce' da Riccardo Conte' di Burlington.

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Creator:
Palladio, Andrea, 1508–1580
Date:
MDCCXXX [1730, i.e. 1735]
Physical Description:
[42] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Harmonic architecture : exemplified in a plan, elevations and sections, &c. of a building with four different fronts, upon an harmonic form or cube, now made octangular : being designed for a museum, in a retired situation of a park or garden ... / by J. Shortess.

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Creator:
Shortess, J
Date:
1741
Physical Description:
1 p. l., [2] p. : 8 plates ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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

16. The Builder's magazine, or, Monthly companion for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : as well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building ... / by a society of architects.

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Date:
1774
Physical Description:
2, 345, 100 p., [185] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts