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• Traité des manieres de dessiner les ordres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties avec plusieurs belles particularitez qui nont point paru jusques a present ...
  by: Bosse, Abraham 1602-1676
  Published: (1680)
• The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, 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. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot. ... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder
  by: Carter, John 1748-1817
  Published: (1794)
• The builder's pocket-treasure or, Palladio delineated and explained, in such a manner as to render that most excellent author plain and intelligible to the meanest Capacity, in which not only the Theory, but the Practical Part of Architecture has been carefully attended to. Illustrated With New and Useful Designs of Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, &c. with their Bases, Capitals, and Entablatures, at large for Practice; Architrave Frontispieces, Cornices, and Mouldings for the Inside of Rooms, &c. the Construction of Stairs, with their Ramp and twist Rails; framing of Floors, Rooss, and Partitions; with the Method of finding the Length and Backing of Hips, streight or curvi-linear; the tracing of Groins, Angle-Blackets, splay'd or circular Soffits; with Plans and Elevations of a Dwelling-House, Hot-House, Garden Temple, Seat and Bridge; and a Table of Scantlings for cutting Timber for Building. The Whole neatly and correctly engraved on Forty-Four Copper Plates, With printed Explanations to face each Plate. By William Pain. Engraved by Isaac Taylor
  by: Pain, William 1730?-1790?
  Published: (1766)
• Chinese architecture. Part the second Being a large collection of designs of their paling of different kinds, lattice work, &c. For Parks, Paddocks, Terminations for Vistos, Ha Ha's, Common Fence and Garden, Paling, both close and open, Chinese Stiles, Stair-Cases, Galleries, Windows, &c. To which are added, Several Designs of Chinese Vessels, Ewers, Ganges Cups, Tureens, Garden Pots, &c. The whole neatly engraved on twelve copper-plates, from real Chinese designs, improved by P. Decker, Architect
  by: Decker, Paul
  Published: (1759)
• A book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments. By James Gibbs
  by: Gibbs, James 1682-1754
  Published: (1739)