Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs for chimney-pieces, from the plain and simple, to the most superb and magnificent, properly adapted to rooms, halls, saloons, lobbies, & cc. of every dimension : with the proportions they bear to each, and full and complete instructions to workmen, enriched with a great variety of arches, doors, windows, cornices, architraves, ornaments for trusses, pedestals, pediments, columns, imposts, modillions, soffets, & cc. To which is added a concise and clear description of the five orders of architecture, regulated by a scale of twelve equal parts ; with observations on rules and methods to be observed in drawing the whole] / by Abraham Swan ; adorned with fifty-four copper-plates, elegantly engraved.

Main entry:

Swan, Abraham.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed for Robert Sayer, MDCCLXVIII [1768]

Description:

vii, 31, [1] pages, 54 plates

Notes:
Head-pieces, initials.
The item filmed is apparently a later (1768) edition of the item listed by Park as no. 82.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books supplement : based on the Helen Park list ; reel 12, no. A82).

Subject:

Fireplaces.
Cheminées d'appartement.
fireplaces.

Added entries:

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

Holdings:

Location: Library study room microform 41550
Call No.: ID87B7159s126 MFM; ID:89-B1630
Status: Available

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