Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented : being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates : containing a great variety of magnificent buildings, accurately described : as also, several of a smaller kind elegantly design'd, with all necessary offices, of great strength, easy construction, and graceful appearance : scales are annexed, and regular estimates are made for each design : the whole carefully calculated by the great square : with instructions to workmen, &c. in several pages of letter-press : intended as an improvement of what has been published of that sort / correctly engraved from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects ; published according to act of Parliament, April 24, 1752.

Main entry:

Halfpenny, William, -1755.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed for, and sold by Robert Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, 1752.

Description:

16 pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm

Notes:
Illustrations by William and John Halfpenny.
ESTC, T126518
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990, 286
Archer, 130.2

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Domestic Designs and plans Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Chinese Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Gothic Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture domestique Dessins et plans Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture chinoise Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture gothique Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Architecture, Chinese.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Gothic.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.
Early works.
Engravings 1752.
Etchings 1752.

Added entries:

Halfpenny, William, -1755, illustrator.
Halfpenny, John, active 18th century, illustrator.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 85327
Call No.: ID:93-B1625
Status: Available

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