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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Period 18th century

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Subject Terms Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans.

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1. Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.
Creator:
Payne, John, 1710–1771
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
16, [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Plans, elevations, and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples, and other garden buildings; executed in the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham and York. By James Paine ...

Plans, elevations, and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples, and other garden buildings; executed in the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham and York. By James Paine ...
Creator:
Paine, James, 1717?-1789
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part double) plans (part double) 62 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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

4. An essay on British cottage architecture: being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance. Supported by fourteen designs ... the whole extending to twenty-one plates, designed and executed in aqua-tinta. By James Malton ...

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Creator:
Malton, James, d. 1803
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
2 p.., 27 p. 21 plates (incl. plans) 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen; also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected. The whole invented & drawn by Willm. & Inn. Halfpenny ...

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
4 pt. in 1 v. 64 plates (part fold.) 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Builder's magazine: or, A universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... consisting of designs in architecture in every stile and taste ... together with the plans and sections ... / By a society of architects.

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Date:
MDCC LXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[4], 345, [1], 100 p., CLXXXV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Piante elevazioni profili e spaccati degli edifici della villa suburbana di Giulio III : Pontefico Massimo fuori la Porta Flaminia / misurati e delineati da Giovanni Stern, architetto romano.

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Creator:
Stern, Giovanni, 1734–1794 or 1795
Date:
MDCCLXXXIIII [1784]
Physical Description:
115 [i.e. 55], [1] pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 79 x 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Original designs of temples, and other ornamental buildings for parks and gardens, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste. By Tho. Collins Overton.

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Creator:
Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
19 p. 50 plates (incl. plans, 1 fold.) 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Plans, elevations and sections, of noblemen and gentlemen's houses, and also of stabling, bridges, public and private, temples, and other garden buildings; executed in the counties of Derby, Durham, Middlesex, Northumberland, Nottingham, and York. By James Paine ...

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Creator:
Paine, James, 1717?-1789
Date:
1767-83
Physical Description:
2 v. plates (part fold.) plans (part double) 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &c. ...Engraved on thirty-eight plates. With appropriate scenery, plans, and explanations, by John Plaw.

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Creator:
Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
13 p. 38 pl. (incl. front., plans) 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts