The builder's magazine : or monthly companion for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. as Well as for Every Gentleman who would wish to be a competent Judge of the elegant and necessary Art of Building. Consisting of designs in architecture, In Every Stile and Taste, from the most magnificent and superb Structures, down to the most simple and unadorned; together with the plans and sections, serving as an unerring Assistant in the Construction of any Building, from a Palace to a Cottage. In which will be Introduced Grand and Elegant Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Cielings, Doors, Windows, &c. proper for Halls, Saloons, Vestibules, State Rooms, Dining Rooms, Parlours, Drawing Rooms, Anti Rooms, Dressing Rooms, Bed Rooms, &c. Together with Designs for Churches, Hospitals, and other Public Buildings. Also, Plans, Elevations, and Sections, in the Greek, Roman and Gothic Taste, calculated to embellish Parks, Gardens, Forests, Woods, Canals, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, extensive Views, &c. The whole forming a complete system of architecture, in all its Branches; and so disposed, as to render the Surveyor, Carpenter, Mason, &c. equally capable to erect a Cathedral, a Mansion, a Temple, or a Rural Cot. By a society of architects. Each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, John, 1748-1817.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Building.

Building--Periodicals.

Building--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800.

Architecture--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Periodicals.

Architecture--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.

Architecture--Designs and plans.

Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.

Building--Dictionaries.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,345 pages, 1 unnumbered page,100 pages, CLXXXVplates (some folded) : diagram ; 4⁰

Other Title:

Builder's magazine: or monthly companion

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the authors; and sold by F. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, in Ludgate Street; and all other booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, MDCCLXXIV. [1774][-78]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Society of architects = John Carter, who signs the description of the plates.

Originally issued as a monthly publication.

Some of the plates are dated 1775-78.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Collects monthly issues of: The Builder's magazine.

Cited in:

Roscoe, A68(1)

NCBEL, II:1305

Crane & Kaye, 79A

Goldsmith's lib. cat., 11121

Higgs, 5939

Times handlist, p. 44

English Short Title Catalog, T101927.

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