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Principles of architecture; : comprising fundamental rules of the art, with their application to practice: : also rules for shadows for the five orders. / By Peter Nicholson, architect, author of The architectural dictionary, etc.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1848 Nicholson
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Architecture.
- Architectural drawing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Architectural drawing.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 280 p., 216 [i.e. 219] leaves of plates (7 folded) : ill., plans ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Sixth edition, / revised and corrected by Joseph Gwilt.
- Other Title:
- Nicholson's Principles of architecture
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden., MDCCCXLVIII. [1848]
- Notes:
- "Illustrated with two hundred and eighteen engravings by W. Lowry."
- "C. and J. Adlard, printers, Bartholomew Close."--verso of half t.p.
- Plates numbered: 1-75, 75-85, 85-88, 88-216. Most plates engraved by W. Lowry after Nicholson with others engraved by Cosmo Armstrong, Samuel Porter, and Roffe.
- Half title and spine title: Nicholson's Principles of architecture.
- 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 bookseller's label: C.J. Price & Co., importers of English books, no. 7, Hart's Buildings, Philada.; accession number 3244; first recorded in the 1857 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as no. 1191 and in the 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 445.
- OCLC:
- 234182801
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