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    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, chimney-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 prefix'd, 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 Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
    Published 1750

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    The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant; : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish; illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published; with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate; being not only useful to all masons, bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, joiners and others concerned in the several branches of building, &c. : The whole correctly engraved on 102 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs on the following subjects, &c. I. Of foundations, walls and their diminutions ... II. Great variety of geometrical, elliptic, and polygon figures, with rules for their formation ... III. General directions for framing floors and partitions, truss-roofs, &c. ... IV. Of stair-cases ... V. The five orders of architecture from Palladio, ... VI. Doors, windows, frontispieces, chimney-pieces, cornices, mouldings, &c. ... VII. Sacred ornaments, viz Altar-pieces, pulpits, monuments &c. ... VIII. Gothic architecture, being a various collection of columns ... /
    by Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
    Published 1762

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    The principles of architecture, : containing the fundamental rules of the art, in geometry, arithmetic, & mensuration, with the application of those rules to practice. : The true method of drawing the ichnography and orthography of objects, geometrical rules for shadows; also the five orders of architecure, with a great variety of beautiful examples, selected from the antique; and many useful and elegant ornaments, with rules for projecting them. /
    by Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844
    Published 1827

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    Pain's British Palladio: or, The builder's general assistant. : Demonstrating, in the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the ground plan to the ornamental finish. : Illustrated with several new and useful designs of houses, with their plans, elevations, and sections. Also, clear and ample Instructions, annexed to each subject, in letter-press; with a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only. This work will be universally useful to all carpenters, bricklavers, masons, joiners, plaisterers, and others, concerned in the several branches of building, &c. comprehending the following subjects, viz. Plans, elevations, and sections, of gentlemen's houses. Designs for doors, chimneys, and ceilings, with their proper embellishments, in the most modern taste. A great variety of mouldings, for base and surbase architraves, imposts, friezes, and cornices, with their proper ornaments, for practice, drawn to half-size: To which are added, scales for enlarging or lessening at pleasure. Also, great variety of stair-cases; shewing the practical method of executing them, in any case required, viz. Groins, angle-brackets, circular circular flewing and winding soffits, domes, sky-lights, &c. all made plain and easy to the meanest capacity. The proportion of windows for the light to rooms. Preparing foundations; the proportion of chimneys to rooms, and sections of flews. The principal timbers properly laid out on each plan, viz. The manner of framing the roofs, and finding the length and backing of hips, either square or bevel. Scantlings of the timbers, figured in proportion to their bearing. The method for trussing girders, scarsing plates, &c. And many other articles, particularly useful to all persons in the building profession. /
    by Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
    Published 1793

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    Hints on public architecture, : containing, among other illustrations, views and plans of the Smithsonian Institution: together with an appendix relative to building materials. /
    by Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877
    Published 1849

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    The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant; : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish; illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published; with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate; with estimates of materials and workmanship; being not only useful to all masons, bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, joiners and others concerned in the several branches of building, &c. but also necessary for gentlemen who will be hereby enabled to know the exact expence of any building, alteration, or repair. : The whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs on the following subjects, &c. I. Of foundations, walls and their diminutions ... II. Great variety of geometrical, elliptic, and polygon figures, with rules for their formation ... III. General directions for framing floors and partitions, truss-roofs, &c. ... IV. Of stair-cases ... V. The five orders of architecture from Palladio, ... VI. Doors, windows, frontispieces, chimney-pieces, cornices, mouldings, &c. ... VII. Sacred ornaments, viz. Altar-pieces, pulpits, &c. ... VIII. Gothic architecture, ... IX. Plans and elevations of elegant buildings, green houses, hot-houses, temples, seats for gardens, parks. &c. /
    by Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
    Published 1769

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    Gothic ornaments, : selected from various ancient buildings, both in England and France, during the years 1828, 1829, and 1830 : /
    by Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832
    Published 1844

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    Designs of ornamental gates, lodges, palisading, and iron work of the royal parks; : with some other designs equal in utility and taste: intended for those designing, and making parks, terraces, pleasure walks, recreative grounds, &c. &c. /
    Published 1841

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    Specimens of Gothic architecture; : selected from various ancient edifices in England: : consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and parts at large; calculated to exemplify the various styles, and the practical construction of this class of admired architecture, : accompanied by historical and descriptive accounts. /
    by Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832
    Published 1823

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    Chronological history and graphic illustrations of Christian architecture in England: : embracing a critical inquiry into the rise, progress, and perfection of this species of architecture; : also eighty-six plates of plans, sections, elevations, and views, historical and descriptive accounts of each edifice and subject; an alphabetical list of architects of the middle ages, and chronological lists of ancient churches; sepulchral monuments; pulpits, fonts, stone crosses, etc. a dictionary of architectural terms, and copious indexes. /
    by Britton, John, 1771-1857
    Published 1835

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    The carpenter's and joiner's repository, or, A new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, for finishing of rooms, &c. : a great variety of staircases, on a plan entirely new, and easy to be understood : circular circular soffits, shewing and winding, in strait and circular walls, groins, angle brackets, circular and elliptical skylights : and the method of squaring and preparing their circular bars, shop-fronts, &c. /

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    A book of architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments
    by Gibbs, James, 1682-1754
    Published 1728

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    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 ... designs ... engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper plates, for piers, gates ... , with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams ... , to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ... /

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    A book of ornaments in the Palmyrene taste containing upwards of sixty new designs for ceilings, pannels, pateras & mouldings, and with the raffle leaves at large /
    by Wallis, N
    Published 1771

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    The builders' assistant : containing the five orders of architecture, selected from the best specimens of the Greek and Roman, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection, and profile, and a variety of mouldings, modillions & foliage, on a larger scale, both enriched and plain; with working drawings, shewing their method of construction: selected from a number of beautiful examples, copied from the antique. For the use of builders, carpenters, masons, plasterers, cabinet-makers, and carvers: and for whom are sixty original designs, with their plans, elevations and sections. The whole exemplified on 150 copper plates /

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    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 ... designs ... engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors [etc.] ... : 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 ... the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. ... /

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