Designs for chimnies: and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. To which is added, A concise, but clear Description of the Five Orders, regulated by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts. With some Observations on Rules and Methods used in Drawing. The whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect
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Type of record: Book
Title: Designs for chimnies: and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. To which is added, A concise, but clear Description of the Five Orders, regulated by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts. With some Observations on Rules and Methods used in Drawing. The whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect
Classmark: Bedford Collection A062
Creator(s): Swan, Abraham
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Clegg, David (Former owner); Beardsall, Henry (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for the author: and sold by Henry Webley, in Holborn, and James Buckland, in Pater-Noster Row
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1765]
Language: English
Size and medium: 31,[1]p.,plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721842
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019768948105181
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Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A062: contemporary calf, gold tooled.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A062: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: CPo/9. Twentieth-century book label on front pastedown: David Clegg ex libris. MS. inscription on front flyleaf: This book belonged to Henry Beardsall Retford 1850 father to m a Jackson wife of w Jackson EX W [?] J 1903 [i.e. Henry Beardsall, builder of East Retford in 1832, daughter Mary Ann, possibly born in 1822 or 1828].
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