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The British architect: or, The builders treasury of stair-cases.: Containing. I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... 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, in the most elegant and modern taste. 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, both in a straight and circular wall, never published before. Together with raking cornices, groins, and angle brackets described. : The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copper-plates.

by Abraham Swan First published in 1758 — 12 editions

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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 decorations, 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 First published in 1757 — 9 editions

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The British architect: or, the builders treasury of stair-cases. ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs ... on sixty folio copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, ...

by Abraham Swan First published in 1745 — 8 editions

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The British architect: or, The builders treasury of stair-cases ; containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... shewing their most convenient situation and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ...

by Abraham Swan First published in 1740 — 4 editions

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The British architect: or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases: Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders ... 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 copper-plates

by Abraham Swan First published in 1745 — 3 editions

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Georgian architectural designs and details: the classic 1757 stylebook

by Abraham Swan First published in 2005 — 3 editions

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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 decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margents 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

by Abraham Swan First published in 1757 — 3 editions

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Interior decoration of the eighteenth century: (woodwork, wall-treatments, staircases, chimneypieces and other details)

by Abraham Swan First published in 1928 — 2 editions

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Designs for Chimnies and the Proportions They Bear to Their Respective Rooms : Containing More Than Eighty Examples of This Kind : Also Variety of Arches, Doors, and Windows: to Which Is Added, a Concise, but Clear Description of the Five Orders...

by Abraham Swan, Henry Webley, and James 1710 or 1711-1790 Buckland First published in 2021 — 2 editions

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carpenter's complete instructor: in several hundred designs, consisting of domes, trussed roofs, and various cupolas ...

by Abraham Swan First published in 1768 — 1 edition

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Designs for chimnies: and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. ... The whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, ...

by Abraham Swan First published in 1765 — 1 edition

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Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs, for chimney pieces: from the plain and simple, to the most superb and magnificent, ... With ... full and complete instructions to workmen; ... By Abraham Swan, ... Adorned with fifty-four copper-plates, ...

by Abraham Swan First published in 1768 — 1 edition

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A Collection of Designs in Architecture, Containing new Plans and Elevations of Houses, for General use. With ... Rooms; ... Their Decorations, ... ... Mouldings for the Panelling of 2; Volume 1

by Abraham Swan First published in 2018 — 1 edition

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Upwards of one Hundred and Fifty new Designs, for Chimney Pieces; From the Plain and Simple, to the Most Superb and Magnificent, ... With ... Full and ... Instructions to Workmen; ... By Abraham Swan

by Abraham Swan First published in 2018 — 1 edition

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Designs for chimnies: and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. ... The whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, ..

by Abraham Swan First published in 1765 — 1 edition
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The carpenter's complete instructor in several hundred designs: consisting of domes, trussed roofs, and various cupolas ...

by Abraham Swan First published in 1973 — 1 edition

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Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs of chimney pieces ...

by Abraham Swan First published in 1973 — 1 edition

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The British architect; The builder's treasury of stair-cases ... illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copperplates

by Abraham Swan First published in 1794 — 1 edition

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The British architect (Da Capo Press series in architecture and decorative art)

by Abraham Swan First published in 1967 — 1 edition

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Collection of Designs in Architecture : Containing New Plans and Elevations of Houses for General Use: with a Great Variety of Sections of Rooms ... to Which Are Added, Curious Designs of Stone and Timber Bridges ... in Two Volumes, Each Containing... ; V. 1-2

by Abraham Swan First published in 2021 — 1 edition

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