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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Date 1768

Subject Terms Architecture -- Details.

1. 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 margents 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 ... By Abraham Swan, architect ...

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: [ca. 1768]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. 125 plates. 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts