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The British architect [microform] : or, The builder's treasury of staircases / by Abraham Swan, architect.
LIBRA Microfilm 81 reel 57 no.339-342
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Swan, Abraham.
- Series:
- Fowler collection of early architectural books ; reel 57, no. 341.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Stair building--Early works to 1800.
- Stair building.
- Staircases--Early works to 1800.
- Staircases.
- Physical Description:
- 12 p. : LX engr. plates ; 44 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed by J.W. Folsom for J. Norman, 1794.
- Notes:
- Subtitle: Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... II. Likewise stair cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ; the whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copperplates.
- Second American edition of the work first issued in England in 1745.
- Plates engraved by John Norman.
- Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, [1979]. on 1 microfilm reel with other items ; 35 mm. (Fowler collection of early architectural books ; reel 57, no. 341). s1979 ctun a
- OCLC:
- 8679768
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