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The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry, as also the most easy, expeditious, and correct methods for attaining the knowledge of the five orders of architecture, by equal parts, and fewer divisions, than any thing hitherto published ... the whole embellished not only with eighty-four plates, in quarto, but such variety of ceiling-pieces, shields, compartments, and other curious and uncommon decorations, as must needs render it acceptable to all gentlemen, artificers, and others, who delight in, or practice, the art of building / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole.
Fine Arts Library - Rare Book NA2810 .H67 1748
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoppus, E. (Edward), -1739.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.
- Geometry--Problems, exercises, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Geometry.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Architecture--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Genre:
- Problems and exercises.
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 101 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 85 unnumbered leaves of plates, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm (4to)
- Edition:
- Third edition, carefully revised and re-examined from the press, with the addition of a new frontispiece, representing the intended frontispiece of the new mansion-house for the Lord Mayors of the City of London, and a complete table of contents, alphabetically digested by E.H. aforesaid.
- Other Title:
- Gentleman's and builder's repository
- Architecture display'd
- Architecture displayed
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for C. Hitch ..., J. Hodges ..., and B. Cole ..., MDCCXLVIII [1748]
- Notes:
- Signatures: [A]1 B-N⁴ O⁴(-O4).
- With 84 numbered (LXXXIV), full-page plates, 2 unnumbered pages of plates between p.24-25, and a frontispiece.
- Woodcuts: initials; head- and tail-pieces.
- Advertisements on last page.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gemmill Family Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN), T40731
- Fowler, 156
- OCLC:
- 21732996
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