A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses for general use : with a great variety of sections of rooms ; from a common room, to the most grand and magnificent. Their decoratios, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges, extending from twenty feet to two hundred and twenty, in one arch. Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes. Each containing sixty plates, curiously engraved on copper / by Abraham Swan, architect ...

Main entry:

Swan, Abraham.

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Publication:

London : Printed for and sold by the author, near the George and Portland Street, Cavendish Square ; By Mr. Meadows, over against the Royal-Exchange ; Messrs. Hitch and Hawes, in Pater-noster Row ; H. Piers and partner at the Bible and Crown, in High Holborn, MDCCLVII [1757]

Description:

2 volumes

Notes:
Head-pieces, end-pieces, initials.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list ; reel 12, no. A80).

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Details Early works to 1800.
Architecture Designs and plans Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Domestic Designs and plans Early works to 1800.
Bridges Early works to 1800.
Interior decoration Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture Détails Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture Dessins et plans Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture domestique Dessins et plans Ouvrages avant 1800.
Ponts Ouvrages avant 1800.
Décoration intérieure Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Architecture Details.
Architecture, Domestic.
Bridges.
Interior decoration.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.
Early works.

Added entries:

American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list.

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Location: Library study room microform 41451
Call No.: ID87B7159s126
Status: Available

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