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A new and compleat system of architecture delineated : in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses, together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also an estimate of each by the great square, prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same intended for entrances to courts, gardens, & c : as also new architectural rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-bridge, with the two adjoining arches, and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate : the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work / neatly engrav'd and design'd by William Halfpenny.
Engraver
Halfpenny, William, -1755
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Printed for John Brindley, Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in New Bond-Street, 1749.
Description
4 unnumbered pages, 26 pages, 46 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 22 x 27 cm
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Marquand Library - Rare Books
NA7132 .H16 1749
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Subject(s)
Architecture
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Early works to 1800
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Architecture, Domestic
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Early works to 1800
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Architecture
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Designs and plans
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Early works to 1800
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Architecture, Domestic
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Designs and plans
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Early works to 1800
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Westminster Bridge (London, England)
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Designs and plans
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Early works to 1800
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Bookseller
Brindley, John, -1758
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Engraver
Parr, Remi, 1723-
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Rare books genre
Mottled calf bindings (Binding)
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18th century
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Bookplates (Provenance)
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20th century
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Getty AAT genre
Engravings (prints)
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England
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London
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18th century
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Notes
Printer's ornament on t.p.
Main body of text printed in double columns.
Plates designed by Halfpenny and engraved by Parr.
Binding note
SAX copy: Bound in contemporary full mottled calf, covers gold ruled, gold stamped spine, vellum title label on spine, gold tooled board edges.
Provenance
SAX copy: Bookplate on front paste-down ("Harold Douthit").
References
ESTC, T078316
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785. Cambridge, 1990, 294
Archer, : 133.1
Place name(s)
England London.
OCLC
26917579
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