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Creator Halfpenny, William, -1755

1. New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ... / by William Halfpenny.

New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ... / by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1750-1752
Physical Description:: 4 pts. in 1 : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Useful architecture : being the last work in this kind of William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter : in twenty-five new designs : with full and clear instructions, in every particular, for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns, with their respective offices, &c. ... : together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only ... : the four designs added, are for bridges ...

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [4], 78 [i.e. 76] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts