Useful architecture in twenty-one new designs for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns : with their respective offices, &c. of various dimensions at the most moderate expence, the largest not exceeding five hundred pounds, and the smallest under one hundred pounds : as will evidently appear by their several dimensions and estimates particularly set forth with respect both to brick and stone, adapted to the usual measurement of Great Britain and Ireland. Together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only, with estimates annext in like manner. The whole intended as an improvement of what has hitherto been given on that subject, and rendered both practicable and beneficial to all concerned in building / by William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter.

Main entry:

Halfpenny, William, -1755.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed for and sold by Robert Sayer, map and printseller, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, MDCCLII [1752]

Description:

1 p. l., [2], 79, [1] p., 20 plates ; 4|o.

Notes:
Head-pieces, end-pieces, initials.
Printer's and bookseller's advertisements at end.
ESTC, T079273
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list ; reel 4, no. A30).

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic Designs and plans.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture domestique Dessins et plans.
Architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.
Early works.

Added entries:

American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room microform 47258
Call No.: ID87B7159s118 MFM; ID:89-B6475
Status: Available

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