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The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, architecture display'd : Containing the most useful and requsite problems in geometry. As also the most easy, expeditious and correct methods for attaining the knowledge of the five orders of architecture, by equal parts, and fewer divisions, than any thing hitherto published. Together with all such rules for arches, doors, windows, ceiling-pieces, chimney-pieces, and their particular embellishments, as can be required. Likewise a large variety of designs for truss roofs; with the method of finding the hip, either square or bevel. Also, the most certain and approved methods of forming a number of different staircases, with their twisted rails, &c. The whole embellished, not only with eighty-four plates, in quarto, but such variety of cieling-pieces, shields, compartments, and other curious and uncommon decorations, as must needs render it acceptable to all gentlemen, artificers, and others, who delight in, or practice, the art of building / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole.
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Hoppus, E.

Title & Author:

The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, architecture display'd : Containing the most useful and requsite problems in geometry. As also the most easy, expeditious and correct methods for attaining the knowledge of the five orders of architecture, by equal parts, and fewer divisions, than any thing hitherto published. Together with all such rules for arches, doors, windows, ceiling-pieces, chimney-pieces, and their particular embellishments, as can be required. Likewise a large variety of designs for truss roofs; with the method of finding the hip, either square or bevel. Also, the most certain and approved methods of forming a number of different staircases, with their twisted rails, &c. The whole embellished, not only with eighty-four plates, in quarto, but such variety of cieling-pieces, shields, compartments, and other curious and uncommon decorations, as must needs render it acceptable to all gentlemen, artificers, and others, who delight in, or practice, the art of building / the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole.

Edition:

The second edition, carefully revised and re-examined from the press; with the addition of a new frontispiece, representing the intended front of the new mansion-house for the Lord Mayors of the city of London; and a complete table of contents, alphabetically digested by E.H. aforesaid.

Publication:

London : Printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, at the Red Lion, in Pater-noster-Row; J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, on London-bridge; and B. Cole, engraver, in Holburn, XDCCXXXVIII (1738)

Description:

1 preliminary leaf, [6], 99, [1] pages, 84 plates ; 4o

Notes:
Engr. front., illus., head-pieces, end-pieces, initials.
Printers' lists at end. Plates bound out of order.
Park lists as no. 32, but rather the sixth edition of Park no. 31, which she dates at 1760.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, 1972. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books ; no. A31).
Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Orders.
Geometry Problems, exercises, etc.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture Ordres.
Géométrie Problèmes et exercices.
Architecture.
Geometry.

Form/genre:

Early works.
Problems and exercises.

Added entries:

American architectural books.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room microform 48560
Call No.: ID87B7159s118 MFM; ID:89-B7607
Status: Available

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