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Suite of engravings of designs for altar-pieces, a table tomb, a garden pavilion with grotto and fountain, a doorway and six chimney-pieces
Weyen, Herman; Barbet, Jean (1591-1654); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Radi, Bernadino (1581-1643)
[1640?]
Title supplied by cataloguer. No artist or engraver named. Attributed to Jean Barbet. Usually bound after barbet's Livre d'architecture d'autels et de chemineĢes, 1632.
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
Halfpenny, William (1755); Halfpenny, John; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Palmer, LS
1755
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...
The gentleman's and builder's repository: or, architecture display'd. Containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry. As also The most Easy, Expeditious, and Correct Methods for attaining the Knowledge of the Five Orders of Architecture, by equal Parts, and fewer Divisions, than any Thing hitherto published. Together With all such Rules for Arches, Doors, Windows, Ceiling-Pieces, Chimney-Pieces, and their particular Embellishments, as can be required. Likewise A large Variety of Designs for Truss Roofs; with the Method of finding the Hip, either Square or Bevel. Also The most certain and approved Methods of forming a Number of different Stair-Cases, with their Twisted Rails, &c. The whole embellished, not only with eighty-four plates, in Quarto, but such Variety of Cieling-Pieces, Shields, Compartments, and other curious and uncommon Decorations, as must needs render it acceptable to all Gentlemen, Artificers, and others, who delight in, or practice, the Art of Building. The designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, Surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole
Hoppus, E (1739); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Moor, James; Cunningham, William; Dunbar, N?
MDCCXLVIII. [1748]
With 84 numbered, full-page plates, 2 unnumbered plates on one leaf between p.24-25, and a frontispiece.