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Subject Terms Architecture, Gothic -- Early works to 1800.

1. Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented : being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates : containing a great variety of magnificent buildings, accurately described : as also, several of a smaller kind elegantly design'd, with all necessary offices, of great strength, easy construction, and graceful appearance : scales are annexed, and regular estimates are made for each design : the whole carefully calculated by the great square : with instructions to workmen, &c. in several pages of letter-press : intended as an improvement of what has been published of that sort / correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects ; published according to act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.

Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented : being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates : containing a great variety of magnificent buildings, accurately described : as also, several of a smaller kind elegantly design'd, with all necessary offices, of great strength, easy construction, and graceful appearance : scales are annexed, and regular estimates are made for each design : the whole carefully calculated by the great square : with instructions to workmen, &c. in several pages of letter-press : intended as an improvement of what has been published of that sort / correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects ; published according to act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 16 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves; faced garden and umbrello'd seats, terminari's, and rustic garden seats, rout houses, and hermitages for summer and winter, obelisks, pyramids, &c. Many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees. Being a taste entirely new. Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them / the whole engraved on twelve copper plates designed by P. Decker.

Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves; faced garden and umbrello'd seats, terminari's, and rustic garden seats, rout houses, and hermitages for summer and winter, obelisks, pyramids, &c. Many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees. Being a taste entirely new. Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them / the whole engraved on twelve copper plates designed by P. Decker.

Creator:: Decker, Paul
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 pts. in 1 v. ([1],12, [1], 12 leaves) : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Temples anciens et modernes, ou, Observations historiques et critiques sur les plus celebres monumens d'architecture grecque et gothique / par M. L. M.

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Creator:: Avril, Louis, b. 1722
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: [2], xvj, 347, [3] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Essay on the origin and principles of gothic architecture / by Sir James Hall, Bart., F. R. & A. S.S. Edin. ; from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; (read April 6, 1797).

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Creator:: Hall, James, Sir, 1761–1832
Date:: 1798?]
Physical Description:: 27, [1] p., vi leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts