The British architect; or, The builder's treasury of staircases : Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper plates (1758)
Swan, Abraham, Meadows, William, -1760, bookseller, Piers, H., active 1742-1759, bookseller, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), C. Hitch and L. Hawes (Firm), bookseller · London, Printed for and sold by the author, near the George in Portland Street, Cavendish Square; by Mr. Meadows, over-against the Royal-Exchange; Messrs Hitch and Hawes, in Pater-Noster Row; and H. Piers and Partner at the Bible and Crown, in High Holborn, 1758. · leaf 61
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