The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of staircases : ... illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates / by Abraham Swan.

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Swan, Abraham.

Title & Author:

The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of staircases : ... illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates / by Abraham Swan.

Publication:

London : Printed and sold by the author, 1758.

Description:

viii, 16 pages, lx leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 40 cm

Notes:
I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders ... by a scale of twelve equal parts ... shewing also how to glue up their columns and capitals -- II. Likewise stair-cases ... shewing their most convenient situation, and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner : with a great variety of curious ornaments ... -- 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; with the manner of truss'd roofs, and the nature of a splay'd circular soffit ... together with raking cornices, groins, and angle brackets, described.

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Staircases Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Escaliers Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Staircases.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Builder's treasury of stair-cases.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 73029
Call No.: 4116; ID:86-B12216
Status: Available

Location: Library main 73028
Call No.: 1965; ID:86-B12216
Status: Available

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