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1. 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

2. The artist's vade-mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

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Creator:
Manwaring, Robert
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
[2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. England and Wales : drawn from the most accurate surveys, containing all the cities, boroughs, market towns & villages : in which are included all the improvements and observations both astronomical and topographical which have been made by members of the Royal Society & others, down to the present time : the whole corrected & improv'd / by John Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[circa 1768]
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets ; 115 x 194 cm., sheets 67 x 106 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

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Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Architecture improved : in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates ... / designed by Robert Morris.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
xiv p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges, and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings ... : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo / designed by Robert Morris ...

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Introduction to drawing ships.

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Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
8 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Rural architecture in the Chinese taste : being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, ... on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen ... / the whole invented & drawn by Willm. & Jno. Halfpenny architects ; divided into four parts.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
1752
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. One hundred & fifty new designs / by Thos. Johnson, carver ; consisting of cielings [sic], chimney pieces, slab, glass & picture frames, stands for china &c., clock & watch cases, girondoles, brackets, grates, lanthorns, &c. &c. ; the whole well adapted for decorating all kinds of ornamental furniture, in the present taste ; engrav'd on 56 copper plates.

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Creator:
Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778
Date:
1761
Physical Description:
4 pt. in 1 : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The gentleman's guide.

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Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725–1794
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
1 atlas (4 leaves) : hand col. maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A new and compleat map of all America : also of the West Indies and other islands depending thereon : with a copious table fully shewing the several possessions of each European prince and state, as settled by the definitive treaty concluded at Paris Feby. 10th, 1763 the clauses of which relative thereto are inserted / by John Gibson ...

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Creator:
J. G. (John Gibson)
Date:
[1763]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 104 x 121 cm., folded to 26 x 15 cm., in case 27 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

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Creator:
Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:
[1760?]
Physical Description:
[72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A map of the kingdom of Ireland : divided into provinces, counties and baronies, shewing the archbishopricks, bishopricks, cities, boroughs, market towns, villages, barracks, mountains, lakes, bogs, rivers, bridges, ferries, passes : also, the great, the branch and the by post roads, together with the inland navigation, &c. / by John Rocque ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
[between 1762 and 1773]
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets ; 120 x 188 cm., sheets 67 x 108 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste : being above fifty intire [sic] new designs of plans, sections, elevations,&c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks,forests, woods, canals, &c. ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on fifty four copper-plates from the designs of Charles Over, architect.

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Creator:
Over, Charles
Date:
1758
Physical Description:
8 p., [54] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. [Illustrations to Aesop's Fables]

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Creator:
Barlow, Francis, 1622–1704
Date:
[175-?]
Physical Description:
32 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Stow : the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham ...

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Date:
[1751]
Physical Description:
[4], [4], 28 p., [11] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione : very useful for youth to draw after.

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Date:
[176-?]
Physical Description:
6 leaves : all ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Vignola revived : wherein is shown the true and most elegant proportions of the five orders as laid down by that great master : illustrated by two hundred and twenty-seven designs of palaces and other magnificent buildings : executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere : neatly engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates : adapted not only to the general use of architecture, but herein particular subjects are treated with the greatest accuracy, viz. : the five orders; columns, symbolical, &c. &c. doors, windows, niches, &c. cornishes, French and Italian ; ballustrades, mosaic work, mouldings, &c., sections of rooms, with designs for furniture; ornamental iron-work for various purposes; temples, grotto's, and summer retreats, for parks, gardens, &c. plan, elevations, and sections of the castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a church, pallaces [sic], &c. : with many other particulars relative to the art of building.

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Creator:
Aviler, Augustin-Charles d', 1653–1701
Date:
MDCCLXI [1761]
Physical Description:
4 p., 56 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Harlequin's invasion : a new pantomine [sic]. Book 4.

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Date:
1770
Physical Description:
1 folded leaf ([4] p.) : ill. ; 19 x 32 cm. folded to 19 x 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts