A treatise on civil architecture, in which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands. By William Chambers, Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, and architect to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Princess Dowager of Wales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, William, Sir, 1726-1796.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Details.

Architects--Great Britain.

Architects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6],iv,85,[1]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Treatise on civil architecture,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, by J. Haberkorn. To be had at the author's house in Poland Street, near Broad-Street, Soho; likewise of A. Millar, J. Nourse, Wilson and Durham, all in the Strand, T. Osborne in Gray's-Inn, J. and R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, R. Sayer in Fleet-Street, Piers and Webley near Chancery-Lane, Holborn, and J. Gretton, in Old-Bond-Street, MDCCLIX. [1759]

Notes:

With a list of subscribers.

Directions to the binder and errata on verso of final leaf.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Fowler, 86

English Short Title Catalog, T51636.

OCLC:

642622189