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1. 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 ... Likewise some screens and pavilions ... By Abraham Swan, architect ...

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: [ca. 1768]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 125 plates. 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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, 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 copper-plates / by Abraham Swan.

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: viii, 20 p., [56] leaves : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Designs in carpentry : containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices / by Abraham Swan.

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [55] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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, carpenter.

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: viii, 20 p. LX plates. 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The British architect.

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: viii, viii, 16., 60 plates. 42 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library