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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. 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

3. Grotesque architecture, or, Rural amusement : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries ... : the whole containing twenty-eight entire new designs ... : to which is added a full explanation, in letter press, and true method of executing them / by William Wrighte.

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Creator:
Wrighte, William
Date:
1767
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

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Date:
1773
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Chinese architecture, civil and ornamental : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of plans and elevations, &c. from the imperial retreat to the smallest ornamental building in China : likewise their marine subjects : the whole to adorn gardens, parks, forests, woods, canals, &c. consisting of great variety, among which are the following, viz. royal garden seats, heads and terminations for canals, alcoves, banqueting houses, temples both open and close, adapted for canals and others ways, bridges, summer-houses, repositories, umbrello'd seats, cool retreats, the summer dwelling of a chief bonza or priest, honorary pagodas, Japaneze [sic] and imperial barges of China : also, those for the emperor's women, and principal officers attending on the emperor, pleasure boats, &c. : to which are added, Chinese flowers, landscapes, figures, ornaments, &c. : the whole neatly engraved on twenty-four copper-plates, from real designs drawn in China, adapted to this climate / by P. Decker, architect.

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Creator:
Decker, Paul
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design ... / by J. Miller, architect.

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Creator:
Miller, J. (John), architect
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
32 plates, 4 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Familiar architecture : consisting of original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages and summer-retreats : with back-fronts, sections, &c. : together with banqueting-rooms, churches, and chimney-pieces : to which is added, the masonry of the semicircular and elliptical arches, with practical remarks / by Thomas Rawlins, architect.

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Creator:
Rawlins, Thomas
Date:
MDCCLXVII [1768]
Physical Description:
[2], 30, [2] p., LX leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments: also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. with estimates to each design by the great square, and such remarks, explanations and scales are annexed, that the comprehension is rendered easy, and subject most agreeable : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[12], 8 p., 50 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor ... : with twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in north Britain : to which is added, The builder's dictionary: intended for those whose time will not allow them to attend teachers.

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[8], 127, [1], 2, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings (some folded) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Oikidia, or, Nutshells : being ichnographic distributions for small villas : chiefly upon oconomical [sic] principles : in seven classes : with occasional remarks / by Jose Macpacke, a bricklayer's labourer ; part the first, containing twelve designs.

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Creator:
Peacock, James, 1738?-1814
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
[4], 89, [3] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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

12. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

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Date:
1775
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [70] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer : either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

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Creator:
Wood, John, -1782
Date:
MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:
[2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The temple builder's most useful companion, being fifty entire new original designs for pleasure and recreation : consisting of plans, elevations and sections in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste : calculated for the ornamenting of parks, forests, woods, gardens ... &c. : together with a full explanation, in letter press, to each design, and exact scales for measurement / by Thomas Collins Overton.

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Creator:
Overton, Thomas Collins
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
19, [1] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

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Creator:
Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs : being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described : dutch, and other barns, cow-houses, stables, sheep-cots, huts, facades : with all offices appertaining to a well regulated farm : their situations rendered convenient, and aspects agreeable : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use / designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect ; and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper plates.

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Creator:
Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
25 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Rural architecture in the Chinese taste : being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, ... on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen ... / the whole invented & drawn by Willm. & Jno. Halfpenny architects ; divided into four parts.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
1752
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas / engraved and designed by Charles Middleton.

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Creator:
Middleton, Charles, 1756–approximately 1818
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
[2], 16 pages, XX, [1] leaves of plates (some double) : illustrations, plans ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Sketches in architecture : containing plans and elevations of cottages, villas, and other useful buildings, with characteristic scenery / by John Soane ... ; to which are added, Six designs for improving and embellishing of grounds, with sections and explanations, by an amateur ; the whole engraved on fifty-four plates.

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Physical Description:
[6], iv, iv, 20 pages, XLI, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas / engraved and designed by Charles Middleton, architect.

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Creator:
Middleton, Charles, 1756–approximately 1818
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
[2], 16 pages, XX, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The Builder's magazine, or, Monthly companion for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : as well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building ... / by a society of architects.

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Date:
1774
Physical Description:
2, 345, 100 p., [185] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs : for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges ... and ornamental wooden gates / ... engraved on thirty-two plates : from designs drawn by J. Miller.

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Creator:
Miller, J. (John), architect
Physical Description:
32 plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
[12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts