Main entry:

Shaw, Edward, 1784-

Title & Author:

Shaw's Civil architecture : being a complete theoretical and practical system of building, containing the fundamental principles of the art, and illustrated by eighty-two copperplate engravings / by Edward Shaw, architect.

Edition:

Sixth edition, revised and improved. To which are added twenty copperplate engravings, also, a treatise on gothic architecture, with plates, &c. / by Thomas W. Silloway and George M. Harding.

Publication:

Boston : Published by John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, MDCCCLII [1852]

Description:

191 pages, 102 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, diagrams ; 29 cm

Notes:
Copyright 1852 by Luther Stevens (title page verso).
"Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry"--Title page verso.
Printed in two columns.
Plates engraved by W.F. Stratton.
Includes glossaries of architectural terms (pages 171-177) and technical terms used in masonry and in building generally (pages 178-183).
Includes index to "Rules of work, originally adopted by the carpenters of the town of Boston in 1774, revised in 1800, and generally approved ...".
Gold-stamped vignette of ruins and buildings on front cover; a church spire and builders' tool accompany the gold-stamped title information on the spine.

Subject:

Architecture Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Building Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Architecture Orders.
Construction Guides, manuels, etc.
Architecture Ordres.
Architecture Guides, manuels, etc.
architectural orders (assembly and style)
Architecture
Building

Form/genre:

handbooks.
manuals (instructional materials)
Handbooks and manuals
Guides et manuels.

Added entries:

Silloway, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1828-1910.
Harding, George M.
Stratton, William Frink, 1803-1846.
John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.), publisher.
Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, publisher.
Boston Stereotype Foundry.

Civil architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 29238
Call No.: W3039; ID:88-B14903
Status: Available