The British architect : or, The builder's treasury of staircases / by Abraham Swan, architect

Author: Swan, Abraham
Published: Boston : Printed by J.W. Folsom for J. Norman, 1794.
Physical Description: 12 pages : LX engr. plates ; 44 cm
Additional Creators: Norman, John, 1748?-1817

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Fowler collection of early architectural books ; reel 57, no. 341

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Plates engraved by John Norman.
Second American edition of the work first issued in England in 1745.
Subtitle: Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... II. Likewise stair cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ; the whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copperplates.

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Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, [1979]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Fowler collection of early architectural books ; reel 57, no. 341). Filmed with: Il primo libro del nuovo teatro delli palazzi in prospettiva di Roma moderna / Specchi, Alessandro (1699).

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NA25.F63 reel.57 c.1 (Microfilm, Microfiche, etc.) bound in Il primo libro del nuovo teatro delli palazzi in prospettiva di Roma moderna: dato in luce sotto il felice pontificato di nostro signore Papa Innocenzo XII / disegnato et intagliato da Alessandro Specchi ; con direttione e cura di Domenico de Rossi

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