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The British architect: or, The builders treasury of stair-cases. Containing. I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts, free from those troublesome divisons, call'd aliquot parts. Shewing also how to glue up their columns and capitals. II. Likewise stair cases ... shewing their most convenient situation, and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner: with a great variety of curious ornaments, whereby any gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being examples of all kinds; and necessary directions for such persons as are unacquainted with that branch. III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces, in the most elegant and modern taste. V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry; with the manner of truss'd roofs, and the nature of a splay'd circular soffit, both in a straight and circular wall, never published before. Together with raking cornices, groins, and angle brackets described. : The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copper-plates
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The British architect: or, The builders treasury of stair-cases. [microform] : Containing. I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts, free from those troublesome divisons, call'd aliquot parts. Shewing also how to glue up their columns and capitals. II. Likewise stair cases ... shewing their most convenient situation, and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner: with a great variety of curious ornaments, whereby any gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being examples of all kinds; and necessary directions for such persons as are unacquainted with that branch. III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces, in the most elegant and modern taste. V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry; with the manner of truss'd roofs, and the nature of a splay'd circular soffit, both in a straight and circular wall, never published before. Together with raking cornices, groins, and angle brackets described. : The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copper-plates. / By Abraham Swan, architect.
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Philadelphia. : Printed by R. Bell, bookseller, Third-Street, next door to St. Paul's Church, for John Norman architect engraver, in Second-Street., M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]
Physical Description
[9], iv-vi, 17, [3] p., lx leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm. (fol.)
Notes
The order of the letterpress pages varies from copy to copy.
Signatures: pi² [A]² B-F² [G]² (pi1 recto, [G]2 verso blank).
Plates engraved by John Norman. Some plates have letterpress text.
Publisher's prospectuses, p. [2], 1st count, and p. [18-19].
Subscribers list, p. [5-8], 1st count.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42944).
Format
Books / Microforms
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B4124
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 42944
Metzger, E.M. Pennsylvania, 455
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2471
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