Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c. on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen also a near estimate of the charge and hints where proper to be erected the whole invented & drawn by Willm. &Inn. halfpenny, architects The 3d. edition. With the addition of 4 plates in quarto of roofs for Chinese & Indian temples, the manner of fixing their ornaments, covering and carrying off the water, their cornices with the several members adjusted to regular proportion
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
1755. Printed for Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Feller Lane, Fleetstreet
1755, 1755
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | Another "third edition" has no date after "London" in the imprint and dates are omitted from the statement "Published according to act of Parliament" on the titlepages to the individual parts. - English Short Title Catalog, T214810. - In four parts, each with separate titlepage, each differently titled. - Part 1 is by William Halfpenny alone. - Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). - The general titlepage and the titlepage to part 1 are engraved |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([2],8;8;8,8p.,plates) 8° |