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Robert Sayer (1725-1794)

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Type of entity: Person

Name: Robert Sayer

Date of birth: 1725

Date of death: 1794

Source of information: Special Collections

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Bedford Collection A103: A new book of iron work, containing a great variety of designs (useful for painters, cabinet-makers, carvers, smiths, fillegre-piercers, &c.) with gates of various sorts, pilasters, fences for beausets, tables, rails, stair-cases, galleries, balconies, sign and lamps irons, door-lights, gratings, brackets, pedestals, weather-cocks, spindles, &c.The whole neatly engraved on twenty copper-plates, design'd by J. Jores

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Bedford Collection A124: The antique and modern embellisher : consisting of ornamented architraves, frizes, imposts, frets, cymas, astragals, &c. &c. with sundry curious and useful Moresque, Gothic, Indian and French borders: collected from antique reliques, ancient authors, original drawings from the best Italian, French, and English architects

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Bedford Collection A179: The modern builder's assistant; or, a concise epitome of the whole system of architecture; In which The various Branches of that excellent Study are establish'd on the most familiar Principles, And rendered adequate to every Capacity; Being useful to the Proficient, and easy to the Learner. Divided into three parts. Containing I. A Correct View of the Five Orders, explained in several Sheets of Letter-Press. II. Consisting of Regular Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Houses, in the most elegant and convenient Manner, either for the Reception of Noblemen, Gentlemen or Tradesmen with large or small Families, adapted to the Taste of Town or Country. To which Part is added, A great Variety of other Plans for Offices or Out-Houses adjoining to them of different Dimensions for Domestic Uses; Such as Kitchens, Wash-Houses, Malt-Houses, Bake-Houses, Brew-Houses, Dairies, Vaults, Stables, Coach-Houses, Dog-Kennels, &c. &c. Together with the Estimates of each Design, and Proper Instructions to the Workmen how to execute the same. III. Exhibiting (ornamental as well as plain) a Variety of Chimney-Pieces, Windows, Doors, Sections of Stair-Cases, Rooms, Halls, Saloons, &c. Skreens for Rooms, also Cielings, Piers, and Gate-Roofs, &c. &c. The whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates, from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, Architects and Carpenters, Robert Morris, Surveyor, and and T. Lightoler, Carver
The ladies amusement; or, Whole art of japanning made easy. : Illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs, on two hundred copper plates; consisting of flowers, shells, figures, birds, insects, landscapes, shipping, beasts, vases, borders, &c. All adapt
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Bedford Collection A687: The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : Illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs, on two hundred copper plates; consisting of flowers, shells, figures, birds, insects, landscapes, shipping, beasts, vases, borders, &c. All adapted in the best manner for joining in groupes, or being placed in single objects

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Bedford Collection K022: Twenty new designs of Chinese lattice and other works, for stair-cases, gates, palings, hatches, &c. on six folio copper plates, with full instructions annex'd to the several divisions, scantlings &c. Thereby making the whole easy to workmen of every capacity. Published according to Act of Parliament, December 16, 1750

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Bedford Collection K065: The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates

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Bedford Collection K066: The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates

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Bedford Collection K067: The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates

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Geography C-4/ANV: Asia and its islands [cartographic material] : according to d'Anville, divided into empires, kingdoms, states, regions, &c. with the European possessions and settlements in the East Indies, and an exact delineation of all the discoveries made in the eastern parts by the English under Captn. Cook

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Large Ancient History K-2.21/SAY: Ruins of Athens : London 1759

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Whitaker Collection 454 fol.: The universal geographer : or, compleat atlas containing all the known countries in the World

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Whitaker Collection 455 fol.: [Atlas]

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Whitaker Collection 458: A new general and universal atlas : containing forty five maps

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Whitaker Collection 65: The small British atlas : being a new set of maps of all the counties of England and Wales: to which is added, a general map, with tables of length, breadth, area, cities, boroughs and parishes in each county. Likewise a parliamentary map of England, with tables of the produce of the land-tax; also a scheme of the proportion the several counties paid to the Three shilling aid, 1699, compared with the number of members they send to Parliament