The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot.... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder (Vol 1)
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Title: The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot.... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder (Vol 1)
Classmark: Bedford Collection A580
Creator(s): Carter, John (1748-1817)
Additional creator(s): Cook, Andrew George (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Ison, Leonora (1904-1996) (Former owner); Ison, Walter (1908-1997) (Former owner); Harris, John (1931-) (Former owner); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979) (Engraver)
Publisher: printed by M. Allen, Paternoster-Row, for Alex. Hogg, at the King's-Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row
Publication city: London
Date(s): [between 1794 and 1817]
Language: English
Size and medium: 2v. ([4], 345, [1], 8 p.; [2] 100 p., CLXXXV plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729026
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019853790805181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Society of Architects = John Carter.
The second volume consists of the plates and their explanatory notes.
Originally issued in monthly parts between 1774 and 1778 as: The builder's magazine: or Monthly Companion.
Printed not before 1794 or after 1817.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A580 [2 vols]: contemporary half mottled sheep, marbled paper over boards, worn.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A580: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: AO/13. Twentieth-century printed book label on front pastedown of both volumes: Walter & Leonora Ison from their Library [i.e. Walter Ison (1908-1997), architectural historian and Leonora Ison (1904-1996), illustrator, married in 1931). Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf of both volumes [by wood engraver Alan Reynolds Stone (1909-1979)]: John Harris [i.e. John Harris (b. 1931-), curator and architectural historian].
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