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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.
Contributor:
Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
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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