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A collection of designs in architecture, : containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms, from a common room to the most grand and magnificent. Their decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margents and mouldings for the panelling: all large enough for practice. : To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges extending from twenty feet to two hundred twenty, in one arch. Likewise some screens and pavilions. : In two volumes. Each containing sixty plates, curiously engraved on copper. Besides a description of the buildings, and directions for executing most of the designs in letter press. / By Abraham Swan, architect. ; Vol. I-[II]
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia Oversize 1768 Swan
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swan, Abraham.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Bridges--Design--Early works to 1800.
- Bridges.
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Interior decoration--Early works to 1800.
- Interior decoration.
- Architecture, Domestic--England.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. in 1 (vi, 8 p., 60 leaves of plates; iv, 12, 4 p., 65 leaves of plates) : ill., plans ; 43 cm. (fol.)
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for and sold by Robert Sayer, map and printseller, no. 53, in Fleet-Street., [1768?]
- Notes:
- Title page of v.2 varies slightly: "with the addition of 5 new plates and ornaments" precedes "in two volumes."
- Work has complicated publication history; first edition issued London, 1757, with 2nd issue in 1758; two undated editions are recorded, with the Buckland and Webley (booksellers) edition possibly from 1765, and this undated edition, most likely issued in 1768. Cf. Harris.
- Date of imprint is from ESTC and Harris; publisher's advertisement (4 p. at end of v. 2) includes Swan's 1768 work "Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs for chimney pieces."
- "In January 1768, Swan offered a supplement to this work of five more plates of cornice and frieze deisgns for an extra shilling (pls. 61-65). No accompanying text was ever issued, but they were included in two undated reprints probably published in 1765 and 1768."--Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection. British books, p. 314.
- Initials; head and tail pieces.
- Includes 125 engraved plates primarily illustrating elevations and plans of Palladian style houses, and architectural details of bases, surbases, mouldings and cornices; most engraved by J. Addison, others signed T. Müller, A. Swan, and F. Patton after Swan's drawings.
- 5 additional plates (61-65) in Carpenters Company' copy are undated, although some copies apparently include date of 1757. Cf. Archer.
- 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 has 3 copies all lacking [4] p. publisher's advertisement at end of v.2; accession numbers 3321, 3222 and 3226 (c.1-3 respectively); first recorded in 1827 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as Folio 2 (Carpenters' Company originally recorded a publication date of 1757).
- Copy 1 inscribed: Presented by James Hutchinson to the "Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philada." May 22nd, 1863 (Hutchinson was Carpenters' Company member first elected in 1822); c.3 inscribed: John Lort's book.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N027411
- Harris, E. Brit. architectural books and writers, 870
- Archer, J. Literature of Brit. domestic architecture, 326.3
- OCLC:
- 222269469
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