Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c. on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen also a near estimate of the charge and hints where proper to be erected the whole invented & drawn by Willm. &Inn. halfpnny, architects. The 3d. edition. With the addition of 4 plates in quarto of roofs for Chinese & Indian temples, the manner of fixing their ornaments, covering and carrying off the water, their cornices with the several members adjusted to regular proportion
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Type of record: Book
Title: Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c. on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen also a near estimate of the charge and hints where proper to be erected the whole invented & drawn by Willm. &Inn. halfpnny, architects. The 3d. edition. With the addition of 4 plates in quarto of roofs for Chinese & Indian temples, the manner of fixing their ornaments, covering and carrying off the water, their cornices with the several members adjusted to regular proportion
Classmark: Bedford Collection A095
Creator(s): Halfpenny, William (1755)
Additional creator(s): Halfpenny, John (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Palmer, LS (Former owner)
Publisher: 1755. Printed for Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Feller Lane, Fleetstreet
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1755
Language: English
Size and medium: [2],8;8;8,8p.,plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722628
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019766249805181
Description
In four parts, each with separate titlepage, each differently titled.
The general titlepage and the titlepage to part 1 are engraved.
Part 1 is by William Halfpenny alone.
Another "third edition" has no date after "London" in the imprint and dates are omitted from the statement "Published according to act of Parliament" on the titlepages to the individual parts.
Final part [2],6p [mispaginated].
Plates engraved by S Parr, B Cole.
1st item [ 4 parts] in a bound volume of 2 items.
Bound with: 2. Rural architecture in the Gothick taste./ William Halfpenny. London: Sayer, 1752.
Indexed in: ESTC
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication in volume with spine title Halfpenn Chinese Architec. Volume contents: 2. Rural architecture in the Gothick taste./ William Halfpenny. London: Sayer, 1752
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A095: contemporary calf, gold tooled on cover, spine, fore-edge, marbled endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A095: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ARo/6. Marks on front flyleaf: 7/7 [and] 3e/ [3s?]. Eighteenth-century MS. inscription on title page: L S Palmer[?].
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