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The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot.... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder (Vol 2)
Carter, John (1748-1817); Cook, Andrew George; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Ison, Leonora (1904-1996); Ison, Walter (1908-1997); Harris, John (1931-); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979)
[between 1794 and 1817]
Society of Architects = John Carter. The second volume consists of the plates and their explanatory notes. Originally issued in monthly parts between 1774 and 1778 as: The builder's magazine: or Mon...
The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. : As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced, grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings, doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons, vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c. Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos, islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c. equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple, or a rural cot.... Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society of Architects, each having undertaken the department in which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder (Vol 1)
Carter, John (1748-1817); Cook, Andrew George; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Ison, Leonora (1904-1996); Ison, Walter (1908-1997); Harris, John (1931-); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979)
[between 1794 and 1817]
Society of Architects = John Carter. The second volume consists of the plates and their explanatory notes. Originally issued in monthly parts between 1774 and 1778 as: The builder's magazine: or Mon...
The King's Arcadia : Inigo Jones and the Stuart court : a quatercentenary exhibition held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, from July 12th to September 2nd, 1973
Harris, John (1931-); Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Orgel, Stephen (1933-); Strong, Roy C; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Banqueting House (London, England); Arts Council of Great Britain
1973
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and indexes.
Etchings, representing the best examples of ancient ornamental architecture : drawn from the originals in Rome, and other parts of Italy, during the years 1794, 1795, and 1796 (oversize)
Tatham, Charles Heathcote (1772-1842); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Harris, John (1931-); Stone, Reynolds (1909-1979)
1803
With a list of subscribers and author's preface dated 1799. Plates dated 1798 onwards. Bound with: 2. Etchings, representing fragments of antique Grecian and Roman architectural ornament / Charles Ta...
Sir William Chambers
Chambers, Sir William (1723-1796); Snodin, Michael; Harris, John (1931-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1996
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-217) and index. "This catalogue describes and illuminates the largest and most wide-ranging collection of his surviving drawings, the 863 designs and to...
Headfort House & Robert Adam : drawings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Adam, Robert (1728-1792); Harris, John (1931-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Heinz Gallery
1973
"Exhibition, Heinz Gallery, Royal Institute of British Architects... 2nd April to 1st June 1973"--Title page verso.
The Palladian revival : Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick
Harris, John (1931-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Centre canadien d'architecture; Heinz Architectural Center; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
[1994]
Catalog of an exhibition at the Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 19 July-25 September 1994; the Heinz Architectural Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsb...
Inigo Jones : complete architectural drawings
Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Higgott, Gordon; Harris, John (1931-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1989
Catalogue of an exhibition.
Catalogue of the drawings by Inigo Jones, John Webb and Isaac de Caus at Worcester College, Oxford
Harris, John (1931-); Tait, Alan A; Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Webb, John (1611-1672); Caus, Isaac de; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Worcester College (University of Oxford)
1979
A passion for building : the amateur architect in England, 1650-1850 : an exhibition
Harris, John (1931-); Hradsky, Robert; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Sir John Soane's Museum
2007
Includes bibliographical references.
English decorative ironwork from contemporary source books, 1610-1836 : a collection of drawings and pattern books including : A new booke of drawings by John Tijou, 1693; A new book of iron work by J. Jores, 1756 ; The smith's right hand by W. & J. Welldon, 1765 ; Ornamental iron work by I. & J. Taylor, c. 1795 ; A book of designs by J. Bottomley, 1793 ; etc
Harris, John (1931-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1960
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Georgian country houses
Harris, John (1931-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Royal Institute of British Architects
[1968]
Includes bibliographical references (page 64).