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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. Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.

Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.
Creator:
Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Date:
MDCCXV-MDCCLXXI [1715-1771]
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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

4. Proofs for a selection of plates in Vitruvius Brittanicus, volume 5.

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Date:
[1771?]
Physical Description:
25 prints ; volume 52 x 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
[20] p., 83 plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
[2], 33, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

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Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A treatise on civil architecture : in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands / by William Chambers ...

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
[vi], iv, 85, [1] pages, [50] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The city and country purchaser, and Builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builders guide ... / by Richard Neve.

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Creator:
Neve, Richard
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
[12], xx, [288] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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

12. The qualifications and duty of a surveyor explained in a letter to the right honourable the Earl of ****** : in which the essential accomplishements are particularly descrived and considered : necessary to be perused by all persons concerned in building.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
28 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

14. The builder's sketch book, or, The youth's pocket companion : containing a great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
[42], 52 p., 48 plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Convenient and ornamental architecture : consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections : beginning with the farm house and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : ... / by John Crunden ; the whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates by Isaac Taylor.

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Creator:
Crunden, John, ca. 1745–1835
Date:
1767,
Physical Description:
viii, iv, 26 p. : 70 (i.e. 56) plates ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts