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Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors and windows taken from Inigo Jones, and other celebrated architects : to each plate, tables containing the exact proportions of the several parts, are likewise fitted : very usuful to all true lovers of architecture, but particularly so to those who are engaged in the noble art of building / by William Halfpenny.
Fine Arts Library - Rare Book NA2810 .H34 1764
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halfpenny, William, -1755.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Architecture--Details.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Penn Provenance:
- Langwith, John (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 3 unnumbered leaves, 48 leaves : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Practical architecture
- Sure guide to the true working, according to the rule of that science
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Carington Bowles ..., [1764?]
- Notes:
- Imprint date from Harris.
- Carrington Bowles carried on the business of his uncle John Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard from 1764. Cf. Harris.
- Printed on one side of leaf only.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
- Cited in:
- Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785, 310
- OCLC:
- 54286341
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