The gentleman's and builder's repository: or, architecture display'd. Containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry. As also The most Easy, Expeditious, and Correct Methods for attaining the Knowledge of the Five Orders of Architecture, by equal Parts, and fewer Divisions, than any Thing hitherto published. Together With all such Rules for Arches, Doors, Windows, Ceiling-Pieces, Chimney-Pieces, and their particular Embellishments, as can be required. Likewise A large Variety of Designs for Truss Roofs; with the Method of finding the Hip, either Square or Bevel. Also The most certain and approved Methods of forming a Number of different Stair-Cases, with their Twisted Rails, &c. The whole embellished, not only with eighty-four plates, in Quarto, but such Variety of Cieling-Pieces, Shields, Compartments, and other curious and uncommon Decorations, as must needs render it acceptable to all Gentlemen, Artificers, and others, who delight in, or practice, the Art of Building. The designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, Surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole
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Type of record: Book
Title: The gentleman's and builder's repository: or, architecture display'd. Containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry. As also The most Easy, Expeditious, and Correct Methods for attaining the Knowledge of the Five Orders of Architecture, by equal Parts, and fewer Divisions, than any Thing hitherto published. Together With all such Rules for Arches, Doors, Windows, Ceiling-Pieces, Chimney-Pieces, and their particular Embellishments, as can be required. Likewise A large Variety of Designs for Truss Roofs; with the Method of finding the Hip, either Square or Bevel. Also The most certain and approved Methods of forming a Number of different Stair-Cases, with their Twisted Rails, &c. The whole embellished, not only with eighty-four plates, in Quarto, but such Variety of Cieling-Pieces, Shields, Compartments, and other curious and uncommon Decorations, as must needs render it acceptable to all Gentlemen, Artificers, and others, who delight in, or practice, the Art of Building. The designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, Surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole
Classmark: Bedford Collection A050
Publisher: printed for C. Hitch, in Paternoster-Row; J. Hodges, London-Bridge; and B. Cole, in Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCXLVIII. [1748]
Language: English
Size and medium: [2],101,[1]p.,plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721800
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019759746905181
Description
With 84 numbered, full-page plates, 2 unnumbered plates on one leaf between p.24-25, and a frontispiece.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A050: loose excerpt from sale catalogue, no. 5 [for this item].
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A050: re-backed, contemporary calf, contemporary endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A050: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: AO/23. MS. inscription on verso frontispiece: James Moor Bricklayer his book 1749 May. MS. inscription on final leaf p. 101 and verso in same hand: William Cunningham, Manchester March 27 1790. MS. inscription on front flyeaf: N? Dunbar 1962.
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