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. ... : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto (1755)
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754, Parr, Remi, b. 1723 · London : Sold by Robert Sayer ... · leaf 17
on Critictfm, Tis hard to fay, if greater Want of Skill Appear in writing, or in judging ill: But, of the two, lefs dangrous is th Offence To tire our Patience, than nv.ilead our Senfe. Some few in that, but Numberb err in this; Ten cenfure wrong, for one who writes amifs. Tis with our Judgment, as… … C I ) A N EXPLANATION O F T H E PLATES &fc. A Plate I. A LITTLE plain Building 30 Feet in Front, 30 Feet in Depth,and 30 Feet high, to the Top of the Cornice, from Outfide toOucfide of the Walls on the Plan.—The Parlour and Chamber-floors 9 Feet 6 Inches high, and the Attick Story 8 Feet…
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