The British architect: or, The builders treasury of stair-cases. : Containing. I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... Shewing also how to glue up their columns and capitals. II. Likewise stair cases .. shewing their most convenient situation, and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner: with a great variety of curious ornaments ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces, in the most elegant and modern taste. V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry; with the manner of truss'd roofs, and the nature of a splay'd circular soffit, both in a straight and circular wall, never published before. Together with raking cornices, groins, and angle brackets described. : The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copper-plates. / By Abraham Swan, architect.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swan, Abraham, author.

Contributor:

Norman, John, 1748?-1817, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42944.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Designs and plans.

Architecture.

Stair building.

Staircases.

Genre:

Prospectuses.

Subscription lists (Publishing)

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, ii unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages, iii unnumbered pages-vi, 17 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, lx leaves of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia. : Printed by R. Bell, bookseller, Third-Street, next door to St. Paul's Church, for John Norman architect engraver, in Second-Street., M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The order of the letterpress pages varies from copy to copy. Pagination statement and contents notes reflect the order found in the American Antiquarian Society copy.

Plates engraved by John Norman. Some plates have letterpress text.

"Philadelphia, June 20th, 1775. Proposals, for printing by subscription, The gentleman and cabinet-makers's assistant. ..."--p. [2], 1st count.

"Names of the encouragers."--[4] pages following pages [ii].

"Conditions."--p. [18].

"Philadelphia, June 26th, 1775. Proposals, for printing by subscription, in numbers to be published monthly. A collection of designs in architecture ..."--p. [19], with imprint: Philadelphia: Printed by R. Bell ... for John Norman ... M,DCC,LXXV. Recorded separately by Bristol (Bristol B3923; Shipton & Mooney 42768). The conditions on p. [18] are for the "Collection of designs in architecture."

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 42944).

Cited in:

Bristol B4124

Shipton and Mooney 42944

Metzger, E.M. Pennsylvania, 455

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 1248

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2471

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