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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.
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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7.
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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8.
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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9.
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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10.
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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11.
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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12.
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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13.
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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14.
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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15.
The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, oblisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings [sic], and iron works : proportioned by aliquot parts : with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done : the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. : the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language / by B. L.
Author
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Published
London : Printed for S. Harding : And sold by B. Dod, in Ave-Mary-Lane; and J. Marks, on the pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1756.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA3310 .L3 1756 + Oversize
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16.
A new book of Chinese designs
Author
Pillement, Jean, 1728-1808
Published
London : Printed for & sold by D. Voisin, printseller in Middle Row, Holbourn, 1755.
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BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NK1382.C45 P55 1755
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17.
A new book of Chinese designs, calculated to improve the present taste : consisting of figures, buildings, & furniture, landskips, birds, beasts, flow.rs and ornaments, &c.
Author
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778
Published
[London] : Published according to Act of Parliament, & sold by the authors, the first house on the right in Northumberland-Court, in the Strand, & by the print & booksellers in town & country, MDCCLIV [1754]
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BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA3310 .D37 1754+ Oversize
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18.
Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture : in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided
Author
Gibbs, James, 1682-1754
Published
London : Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Maney and H.S. Cox, MDCCLIII [1753]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> Folio A 2016 69
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19.
Rural architecture in the Chinese taste : being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, ... on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen ..
Author
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Published
London : Printed for & sold by Robt. Sayer, 1752.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA8450 H17 1752
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20.
New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ..
Author
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Published
London : Printed for and sold by Robt. Sayer, 1750-1752.
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BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA8450 H17 1750
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21.
The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of useful designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames ..
Author
Jones, William, -1757
Published
London : Printed for the author, 1739.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2840 J6 1739
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22.
A new and accurate method of delineating all the parts of the different orders in architecture : by means of a well contriv'd, and most easily manag'd instrument; whereon the just proportions of the principal members, and of their several parts, are so disposed, as wholly to avoid the difficulty of the fractional parts that usually attend these operations
Author
Revesi Bruti, Ottavio
Published
London : Printed for Fletcher Gyles over against Gray's-Inn Holbourn, and Thomas Heath, Mathematical Instrument Maker, next the Fountain Tavern in the Strand, MDCCXXXVII [1737]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2812 .R4813 1737+ Oversize
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23.
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
Author
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Published
London : Printed for Benjn. Cole engraver, the corner of Kings-Head-Court, near Fetter-Lane, Holbourn, & John Wilcox opposite the new Church in the Strand, MDCCXXVI [1736]
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2500 .P35 1736+ Oversize
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24.
The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of usefull designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces and other decorations
Author
Jones, William, -1757
Published
[London? : s.n., 1736]
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25.
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
Author
Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Published
London : Printed for the authar [sic], & sold at his house, 1736.
Location
BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> NA2840 S6 1736
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