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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 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, and architect to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Princess Dowager of Wales
  by: Chambers, William
  Published: (1759)
• A new collection of chimney pieces, ornamented in the style of the Etruscan, Greek, and Roman architecture : containing thirty six designs, Suitable to the most elegant Range of Apartments; With descriptions of the plates in English and French. Composed, etched and engraved in aquatinta by George Richardson, architect. = Nouveau recueil de cheminées Ornees Dans le Stile De L'Architecture Etrusque, Grecque, & Romaine, Contenant Trente Six Desseins, Sortables aux appartements les plus elegants; Avec Les Descriptions des Planches en Anglois & en François. Composés & gravés en aquatinta par George Richardson, architecte
  by: Richardson, George
  Published: (1781)
• 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)