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"Containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture: As centering for groins, niches, &c. Examples for roofs, sky-lights, &c. The five orders laid down by a new scale. Mouldings, &c., at large with their enrichments. Plans, elevations, and section of houses for town and country, lodges, hot-houses, green-houses, stables, &c. Design for a church, with plan, elevation, and two sections; an altar-piece, and pulpit. Designs for chimney-pieces, shop-fronts, door-cases. Section of a dining-room and library. Variety of stair-cases; with many other important articles and useful embellishments."
First published 1788.
Plates comprise 142 single-page and 6 double-page, numbered 1-146 with two additions at nos. 3 and 65.
Bound with: A catalogue of modern books on architecture, theoretical, practical and ornamental ... which... are ... on sale at J. Taylor's Architectural Library.
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