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Title(s)
Plans, elevations, and sections, of buildings public and private : executed in various parts of England, &c., including the new custom-house, London, with plans, details, and descriptions / engraved on fifty-nine plates by David Laing, F.S.A., architect and surveyor to the Board of Customs, &c.
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Additional Title(s)
Half-title: Plans of buildings public and private, including the new custom-house, London, &c. &c. &c.
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Published/Created
London : Printed by Bensley and Sons, Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street, and published by J. Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holborn, MDCCCXVIII [1818]
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Physical Description
[10], xiv, [2], 44 pages, 57 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2016 78 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2016 78 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Engravings by James Davis, Isaac Taylor, William Woolnoth, John Roffe, R. Roffe, and Joseph Skelton; after David Laing.
The majority of the work (30 pages and 41 plates) illustrates Laing's new Custom House In London. Plates 54-57 show designs for his villas and the Church of St. Dunstan in the East.
With a list of subscribers preceding the introduction.
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 1716
Archer, J. British domestic architecture, 171.1
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 bound in later maroon half morocco, with contemporary marbled boards.
BAC: British Center copy 2 bound in publisher's original paper covered boards. -
Subject Terms
Architecture -- Great Britain. | Architecture, Domestic -- Great Britain. | Church architecture -- Great Britain. | Custom-house (London, England)
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