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• Gothic architecture, part the second. In forty-three designs of paling of various sorts, for parks and clumps of trees, gates, hatches, &c. Likewise doors and windows, with proper Heads to them; Sashes of different Kinds, &c. To which are added, several designs of frets for Joiners and Cabinet-Makers; With Frets and Frizes for Smith's Work, Brass and Iron Fenders, Borders for Marble Tables, &c. The whole neatly engraved on twelve copper-plates. From th designs of P. Decker, Architect
  by: Decker, Paul
  Published: (1759)
• Gothic architecture decorated. Consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses; ... Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them. The whole engraved on twelve copper plates. Designed by P. Decker
  by: Decker, Paul
  Published: (1759)
• 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 chimnies, with their entablatures, for rooms of any size. By N. Wallis, architect. Neatly engraved on thirty-six plates
  by: Wallis, N.
  Published: (1792)
• Andrea Palladio's five orders of architecture : With his treatises of pedestals, galleries, ... Together with his observations and preparations for building; and his errors and abuses in architecture. Faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570. Revised by Colen Campbell, ... To which are added, five curious plates ... invented by Mr. Campbell
  by: Palladio, Andrea
  Published: (1729)
• 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
  Published: (1794)