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Designs in architecture, : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats obelisks, and other buildings; for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. : Engraved on 38 copper-plates. / By John Soane, architect, member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1797 Soane
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.
- Temples--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.
- Temples.
- Garden structures--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.
- Garden structures.
- Physical Description:
- [2] p., XXXVIII [i.e. 37] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for I. & J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High-Holborn. [Price six shillings sewed.], M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]
- Notes:
- Includes 38 engraved copper plates on [37] leaves.
- Local Notes:
- Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.
- Carpenters' Company copy has signature of "M. DePusy" crossed out and written above signature of John M. Ogden (Ogden was Carpenters' Company member and was first elected 1816). Library of Congress authority file records his death date as 1870, but according to the Biographical Dictionary of Architects he died in 1882. Cf. Biographical Dict. of Architects, p. 582-583.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N8553
- Archer, J. Literature of Brit. domestic architecture, 317.4
- Harris, E. British architectural books, 841
- British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 3095
- OCLC:
- 225862609
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