A new and compleat system of architecture, delineated in a variety of plans and elevations : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto and appropriated to the several uses and situations required, and estimates of each design : prefixed to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same, intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. : also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : to which is added a method of discharging and supporting of arches in bridges, as it often happens that there is a sinking in the piers : the whole comprised on forty-seven copper -plates, with explanations thereto in common press work

Halfpenny, William, -1755 · 1759 · London : Printed for R. Sayer, map and printseller, at the Golden-Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet Street · 17 pictures

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