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• The country gentleman's pocket companion : and Builder's Assistant, for Rural Decorative Architecture. Containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, Temples, Summer-Houses, Lodges, Huts, Grotto's, &c. in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste, With proper Directions annexed. Also, an exact estimate of their severa amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable. Correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates, from the designs, and under the direction of William and John Halfpenny, architects
  by: Halfpenny, William
  Published: (1753)
• The builder's pocket-companion : shewing an easy and practical method for laying down lines, for all Sorts of Arches and Curves used in House-Building, Ship-Building, Gardening, &c. Also to make the Centers or Ribs for Vaults or Ceilings, and Brackets for Coves, either regular or irregular. Together With True and Concise Rules to find the Lengths, Bevels, and Moulds for the Back of a Hip, in any Kind of Roofs, whether Square or Bevel, Hexagon, or Pentagon, &c. let their Rafters be strait, or Curves of different Sorts. To which are added, the five orders of columns, With Their Entablatures and Pedestals, the proportions whereof are taken from the immortal Andrew Palladio, and laid down after Mr. Halfpenny's practical method: With several other useful Problems, never before Printed. By Michael Hoare, Carpenter
  by: Halfpenny, William
  Published: (1747)
• Decorations for parks and gardens : Designed for gates, garden seats, alcoves, temples, baths, entrance gates, lodges, facades, prospects for towers Cattle Sheds, Ruins, Bridges, Greenhouses, &c. &c. also A Hot House & Hot Wall: with plans & scales on 55 plates
  Published: (1800)
• Rural architecture in the Gothick taste : Being twenty new designs, for temples, garden-seats, summer-houses, Lodges, Terminies, Piers, &c. on sixteen copper plates. With Instructions to Workmen, and Hints where with most Advantage to be erected. The whole invented and drawn by William and John Halfpenny. Architects
  by: Halfpenny, William
  Published: (1752)
• The builders's pocket-companion : Shewing an easy and practical method for laying down of lines, for all sorts of arches and curves used in house-building, ship-building, gardening, &c. also to make the centers or ribs for vaults or cielings, and brackets for coves, either regular or irregular. Together with true and concise rules to find the lengths, bevels, and moulds for the back of a hip, in any kind of roofs, whether square or bevel, hexagon or pantigon, &c. let their rasters be straight, or curves of different sorts. Extracted from the works of several noted authors: illustrated with variety of examples curiously engraven; and several useful problems added never before printed; by Michael Hoare, carpenter
  by: Halfpenny, William
  Published: (1728)