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• 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. By William Chambers, member of the imperial academy of arts in florence, of the Royal Academy of Architecture in Paris, and of the Society of Sciences in Stockholm, architect to the King, the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales
  by: Chambers, William
  Published: (1768)
• Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste : being above fifty intire new designs of plans, sections, elevations, &c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks, forests, Woods, Canals, &c. Containing Paling of several Sorts, Gates, Garden Seats, both close and open, Umbrello's, Alcoves, Grotto's and Grotesque Seats, Hermitages, Triumphal Arches, Temples, Banqueting Houses and Rooms, Rotundo's, Observatories, Ice-Houses, Bridges, Boats, and Cascades, also, An Obelisk or Monument, with Directions where proper to be erected, and the Method how to execute them. The Whole neatly Engrav'd On Fifty Four Copper-Plates. From the designs of Charles Over, architect
  by: Over, Charles
  Published: (1758)
• 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. By Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. surveyor general of His Majesty's works; treasurer, and member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London; also of those of Paris, and Florence. FRS. FAS. FSSS
  by: Chambers, William
  Published: (1791)
• 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, chinmey-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, obelisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings, 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
  by: Langley, Batty
  Published: (1736)
• 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; ... rules of carpentry, ... Frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings ... in the newest taste; with plans and elevations ... The fourth edition; revised and corrected by the author, William Pain, ... Engraved on eighty-three plates
  by: Pain, William
  Published: (1789)