A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms; from a common room, to the most grand and magnificent. Their decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... likewise some screens and pavilions ...

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Author / Creator:Swan, Abraham
Imprint:London, Printed for and sold by the author, by Mr. Meadows, Messrs. Hitch and Hawes [etc.] 1757.
Description:2 v. 120 plates. 42 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2837675

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