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Coade's Gallery, or, Exhibition in artificial stone, Westminster-Bridge Road : ... of statues, vases, bustos, pedestals, and stoves, medallions and pannels in bass-relief, models from the antique, chimney pieces, monuments, fonts, coats of arms, &c. : being specimens from the manufactory, at Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow-Wall, Lambeth, opposite Whitehall and Hungerford-stairs, established in the year 1769 ..
Published
Lambeth : Printed by S. Tibson, No. 7, Bridge-road, near Astley's Ampitheatre, 1799.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA3467 C62 1799+ Oversize
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2.
Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats ... : engraved on 38 copper-plates
Author
Soane, John, 1753-1837
Published
London : Printed for I. & J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High-Holborn, 1797.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2620 S65 1797
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3.
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
Author
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
Published
London : Printed by Joseph Smeeton, in St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross : sold by T. Cadell, bookseller and printer to the Royal Academy, Strand : I. and J. Taylor, Hoborn : J. Walter, Charing Cross : R. Robson, New Bond Street : and R. Sayer, Fleet Steet, MDCCXCI [1791]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2016 63
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4.
The Builder's golden rule, or, The youth's sure guide : containing the greatest variety or ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry : ... to which is added, and estimate of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with references to specific designs
Author
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Published
London : Printed by and for H.D. Steele, 1790.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2515 P35 1790
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5.
Patent artificial slate manufactory, Woodford Bridge, Essex for cove ring roofs, fronts of houses, and ricks : also water pipes and gutters
Author
Cook, Henry, fl. 1786
Published
[London, 1786?].
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2840 C77 1786
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6.
Catalog for Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory
Author
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory
Published
[London] : [Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory], [1784?]
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BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> TH1451 .C63 1784+ Oversize
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2009 101
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7.
A descriptive catalogue of Coade's artificial stone manufactory at King's Arms Stairs, Narrow-wall Lambeth : opposite White-Hall Stairs. With prices affixed. Consisting of, I. Statues. II. Busts. III. Vases. VI. [i.e. IV] Pedestals. V. Capitals. VI. Frizes. VII. Fascias. VIII. Pannel and tablets. IX. Medallions. X. Pateras for elevations from 30 to 40 feet. XI. Ditto from 20 to 30 feet. XII. Pateras for elevations from 10 to 20 feet. XIII. Ditto of 10 feet and under. XIV. Coats of Arm. XV. Imposts. XVI. Key-stones. XVII. Architraves. XVIII. Rustics. XIX. Pinnacles. XX. Balusters. XXI. Balls and feet. XXII. Chimney tops. XXIII. Piers. XXIV. Consoles. XXV. Sepulchral ornaments. XXVI. Chimney-pieces. XXVII. Pieces of furniture and various ornaments. XXVIII. Ornaments to fix on stone or wood. XXIX. Wood chimney-pieces with stone ornaments. With an appendix
Author
Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory
Published
London : Printed: to be had at the Manufactory, and of J. Strahan, Bookseller, no. 67, Strand, MDCCLXXIV [1784]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> TH1451 .C63 1784+ Oversize
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8.
A new collection of chimney pieces ornamented, in the style of the Etruscan, Greek, and Roman architecture : containing thirty six designs, suitable to the most elegant range of apartments : with descriptions of the plates in English and French
Author
Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?
Published
London : Printed for the author, MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Location
BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> 2000 Folio 85
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2016 92
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9.
The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations
Author
Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Published
London : Printed for I. Taylor, No 56, nearly opposite Great Turnstile, Hollborn. 1780.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA3310 .A78 1780+ Oversize
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10.
The carpenter's and joiner's repository, or, A new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, for finishing of rooms, &c. : a great variety of staircases, on a plan entirely new, and easy to be understood : circular circular soffits, shewing and winding, in strait and circular walls, groins, angle brackets, circular and elliptical skylights : and the method of squaring and preparing their circular bars, shop-fronts, &c.
Author
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Published
London : Printed for the author, and sold by I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> TH5603 P35 1778+ Oversize
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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
Author
Soane, John, 1753-1837
Published
London : Printed for I. Taylor, 1778.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> TS835 W35 1773
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12.
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
Author
Columbani, Placido
Published
London : Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn, near Chancery Lane, 1776.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A T 11
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13.
A new book of ornaments containing a variety of elegant designs for modern pannels [sic] commonly executed in stucco, wood, or painting, and used in decorating principal rooms = Un recueil des ornemens composés, lorsqu'on voudra s'en servir : pour embellir des chambres à l'Angloise = A chiunque piacerà di servirsi di queste idee : serviranno ad accorciar' tempo, con non poco risparmio di fatica, a chi avrá 'l carico di decorar' camere etc
Author
Columbani, Placido
Published
[London] : Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane, [1775]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2850 .C65 1775+ Oversize
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14.
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 ..
Author
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Published
Edinburgh [Scotland] : Printed for R. Clark, 1774.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> TH144 L36 1774
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15.
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
Author
Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Published
London : Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller, at No. 53, in Fleet-Street, 1774.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NK2260 .F87 1774+ Oversize
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16.
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.
Author
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Published
London : Printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2515 .P35 1774+ Oversize
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> 73 774P
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17.
A supplement to the builder's jewel ... : illustrated by upwards of 132 examples, engraved on 44 copper-plates
Published
Edinburgh [Scotland] : R. Clark, 1774.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> TH144 L36 1774
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18.
The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates
Author
Wallis, N.
Published
London : Printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, [1773]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> TS835 W35 1773
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19.
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 ..
Author
Darly, Matthias
Published
London : Printed for and sold by Robert Sayer, map and printseller, no. 53, in Fleet-Street, as the act directs, January 12, 1773.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2016 61
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20.
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
Author
Wallis, N.
Published
London : Printed for I. Taylor at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, [1772]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA3310 .A78 1780+ Oversize
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA3467 .W35 1771+ Oversize
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21.
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
Author
Wallis, N.
Published
London : Published as the Act directs by I. Taylor ..., Sep. 20, 1771.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA3467 W35 1771+ Oversize
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22.
Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors and windows ..
Author
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Published
London : Printed for Carrington Bowles, No. 69, St. Paul's Church yard, [1764?]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2840 H35 1764
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23.
Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves; faced garden and umbrello'd seats, terminari's, and rustic garden seats, rout houses, and hermitages for summer and winter, obelisks, pyramids, &c. Many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees. Being a taste entirely new. Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them
Author
Decker, Paul
Published
London : Printed for the author, and sold by Henry Parker and Elirabeth [sic] Bakewell, opposite Birchin Lane, Cornhill; H. Piers and Partner, at the Bible and Crown, near Chancery-Lane, in Holborn, 1759.
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BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA610 .D43 1759 + Oversize
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24.
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
Author
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
Published
London : Printed for the author, by J. Haberkorn : to be had at the author's house in Poland Street, near Broad-Street, Soho : likewise of A. Millar, J. Nourse, Wilson and Durham, all in the Strand, T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, J. and R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, R. Sayer in Fleet-Street, Piers and Webley near Chancery-Lane, Holborn, and J. Gretton, in Old-Bond-Street, MDCCLIX [1759]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2016 60 Copy 1
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2016 60 Copy 2
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating) >> Folio 73 759C
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25.
A complete body of architecture : adorned with plans and elevations, from original designs
Author
Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766
Published
London : Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, in the Gray's Inn, J. Hodges, near London Bridge, L. Davis, in Fleetstreet, J. Ward, in Cornhill, and R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLVI [1756, i.e. 1757]
Location
LSF - Haas Arts Special Collections (Non-Circulating) >> Folio Jaf42 W222 756
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2022 10 Copy 2
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2022 10 Copy 1
LSF - Haas Arts Special Collections (Non-Circulating) >> Folio Jaf42 W222 756 Oversize
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