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Abraham Swan
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Bedford Collection A062: 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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Bedford Collection A297: Old English and French ornaments : comprising 244 designs, on 105 plates, of elaborate examples of hall glasses, picture frames, chimney pieces, stands for china, clock and watch cases, girandoles, brackets, grates, lanterns, ornamental furniture, ornaments for brass workers and silver workers, rich ornamental ironwork patterns, and for carvers, modellers, &c. &c. &c
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Bedford Collection K086: The British architect: or, the builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions call'd Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to giue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with that Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described. The Whole being illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Designs and Examples, curiously engraved by the best Hands on Sixty Folio Copper-Plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect