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architecture1
architecture, chinese1
decoration and ornament, architectural1
gates1
latticework1
staircases1

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Halfpenny, William (1755)1
Sayer, Robert (1725-1794)1

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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 (oversize)

Halfpenny, William (1755); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794)

1750

Title is taken from John Bedford's annotation on front pastedown referring to a contemporary advertisement for Brindley and Sayer in Andrea Palladio's First Book of Architecture (1751) by Halfpenny. N...

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