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Date 1757

Period 18th century

Creator Morris, Robert, 1701–1754

1. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

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Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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