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| People and organisations | Count |
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| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 2 |
| Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586) | 1 |
| Parker, George 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (1697-1764) | 1 |
| Parker, Richard Timothy George Mansfield 9th Earl of Macclesfield (1943-) | 1 |
| Parker, Thomas 1st Earl of Macclefield (1666-1732) | 1 |
| Parker, Thomas 3rd Earl of Macclefield (1723-1795) | 1 |
| Robin Halwas | 1 |
| Sainsbury, Montagu Ely (1905-1998?) | 1 |
| Sotheby'S (Firm) | 1 |
| Swan, Abraham | 1 |
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Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Parker, Richard Timothy George Mansfield 9th Earl of Macclesfield (1943-); Parker, Thomas 1st Earl of Macclefield (1666-1732); Parker, George 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (1697-1764); Parker, Thomas 3rd Earl of Macclefield (1723-1795); Sotheby's (Firm); Robin Halwas
c.1545-1565
66 plates hand numbered 1 to 67, folio 44 numbered on recto 44 and 45 on verso, comprising 73 etched designs for furniture and furnishings. French title taken from spine. Collation: forty-four print...
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 (oversize)
Swan, Abraham; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sainsbury, Montagu Ely (1905-1998?)
M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]
In some copies the names of Meadows and Hitch and Hawes have been erased and replaced in ink with Mr. Brotherton and Mr. Buckland. Bedford Collection K086 has imprint with Mr. Brotherton and Mr. Buc...