Entrée principale:

Shaw, Edward, 1784-

Titre et auteur:

Civil architecture: or A complete theoretical and practical system of building. : Containing the fundamental principles of the art, with the five orders of architecture. : Also a great variety of examples. Selected from Vitruvius, Stuart, Chambers, and Nicholson; with many useful and elegant ornaments, and rules for projecting them. : Illustrated with ninety-seven copperplate engravings. / By Edward Shaw, architect.

Édition:

Second edition, revised and enlarged.

Publication:

Boston: : Published by Marsh, Capen & Lyon, [1832]

Description:

iv, [1], 6-192, 9, [1] p., [97] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes:
Plates engraved by W.F. Stratton, G. Boynton, and G.W. Appleton.
"Advertisement to the second edition" dated: Boston, May, 1832.
Printed in two columns.
Error in paging: p. 47 misnumbered 39.
"Glossary of architectural terms."--Page [177]-182.
"A glossary of technical terms used in masonry and in building generally."--Page [183]-190.
"Rules of work. Originally adopted by the carpenters of the town of Boston, in 1774: revised in 1800, and now generally approved and consulted as a correct standard of 'Prices of carpenter work.'"--9 p., 2nd count.
Checklist Amer. imprints 14680
Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 1145

Sujet:

Architecture.
Building.
Architecture Orders.
Carpentry.
Carpentry Prices.
Framing (Building)
Construction.
Architecture Ordres.
Charpenterie.
Charpenterie Prix.
constructions (sculpture)
architecture (discipline)
architectural orders (assembly and style)
carpentry (process)

Classification/genre:

Relief prints.
Intaglio prints.
Half bindings (Binding)
Marbled papers (Binding)

Vedettes secondaires:

Stratton, William Frink, 1803-1846, engraver.
Boynton, George W., -1884, engraver.
Appleton, George Washington, 1805-1831, engraver.
Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, publisher.
United States Massachusetts Boston.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 29235
Cote: PO14523; ID:88-B14900
Statut: Disponible