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1. Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.

Twelve designs of country-houses : of two, three and four rooms on a floor : proper for glebes and small estates : with some observations on the common errors in building / by a gentleman.
Creator:
Payne, John, 1710–1771
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
16, [8] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.

Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects / by Colen Campbell = Vitruvius Britannicus, ou, L'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des batiments reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne : compris en 200 grandes planches gravez en taille douce par les meilleurs maitres, et tous ou dessinez des batiments memes, ou copiez des dessiens originaux des architects / par le Sieur Campbell.
Creator:
Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Date:
MDCCXV-MDCCLXXI [1715-1771]
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Britannia illustrata, or, Views of all the palaces, several seats and other publick buildings of England, very neatly engrav'd = Les veües de les palais, et de diverses belles maisons, et d'aütres publiques batiments de l'Angleterre, graves fort curieusement.

Britannia illustrata, or, Views of all the palaces, several seats and other publick buildings of England, very neatly engrav'd = Les veües de les palais, et de diverses belles maisons, et d'aütres publiques batiments de l'Angleterre, graves fort curieusement.
Date:
1724
Physical Description:
[14] leaves : all ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer : either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

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Creator:
Wood, John, -1782
Date:
MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:
[2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

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Date:
[ca. 1720?]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Pisé, or, The art of building strong and durable walls, to the height of several stories, with nothing but earth or the most common materials / drawn up and presented to the board of agriculture by Henry Holland, Esq.

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Creator:
Holland, Henry, 1745–1806
Date:
1797]
Physical Description:
20 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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 architectonic 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 engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
[4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Oikidia, or, Nutshells : being ichnographic distributions for small villas : chiefly upon oconomical [sic] principles : in seven classes : with occasional remarks / by Jose Macpacke, a bricklayer's labourer ; part the first, containing twelve designs.

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Creator:
Peacock, James, 1738?-1814
Date:
1785
Physical Description:
[4], 89, [3] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Useful architecture : being the last work in this kind of William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter : in twenty-five new designs : with full and clear instructions, in every particular, for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns, with their respective offices, &c. ... : together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only ... : the four designs added, are for bridges ...

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
[4], 78 [i.e. 76] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science, representing the five orders : with their several doors & windows taken from Inigo Jones & other celebrated architects ... / by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
1730
Physical Description:
[3], 48 leaves : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Counsel and advise to all builders : for the choice of their surveyours, clarks of their works, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, and other work-men therein concerned : as also in respect of their works, materials, and rates thereof : together with several epistles to eminent persons who may be concerned in building / written by Sir Balthazar Gerbier ...

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Creator:
Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667
Date:
1663
Physical Description:
[110], 110 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Proofs for a selection of plates in Vitruvius Brittanicus, volume 5.

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Date:
[1771?]
Physical Description:
25 prints ; volume 52 x 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

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Creator:
Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs : being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described : dutch, and other barns, cow-houses, stables, sheep-cots, huts, facades : with all offices appertaining to a well regulated farm : their situations rendered convenient, and aspects agreeable : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use / designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect ; and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper plates.

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Creator:
Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
25 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

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Creator:
Morison, Robert
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Cottages, from nature / by John Burton.

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Creator:
Burton, John, 1696–1771
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors and windows ... / by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
[1764?]
Physical Description:
[3], 48 leaves : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
[2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

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Creator:
Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:
1779?]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:
[12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts