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The architect's magazine, or, Book of designs: containing the ground-plans and elevations of churches, court houses, dwellings, lodges, villas, seats, cottages, colleges, school-houses, offices, banks and prisons : taken by careful admeasurement from buildings in part, and in part consisting of original designs by the author : together with a report of the Egyptian order from the researches of la basse and haute / by S.S. Walker.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints Oversize 1839 Walker
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Samuel S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Designs and plans--Pictorial works.
- Architecture.
- Architecture, Egyptian.
- Physical Description:
- 18 p., XII leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 27 x 35 cm.
- Other Title:
- Book of designs, containing the ground plans and elevations of churches
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Published by J.T. Bowen, at his lithographic and print-coloring establishment, 94 Walnut Street, 1839.
- Notes:
- Contains 12 lithographic plates signed by Bowen; illustrations include sketches of the Egyptian order as well as plans and elevations of the Hannafield Villa near Dumfries (Scotland) and a law office and a suburban villa.
- "Printed by T.K. & P.G. Collins, no. 1 Lodge Alley--T.p. verso.
- With ink stamp of Spicer Library, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
- Not in Hitchcock; no other copies reported.
- Complete as issued?
- First edition, or first issue?; Avery library reports 1845 edition on microfilm.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Housed in protective clamshell box.
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