The British architect, or, The builders treasury of stair-cases : containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... shewing their most convenient situation and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved by the best hands, on sixty folio copper-plates / / By Abraham Swan, architect.

Online Library Resources

> You are only searching: Smithsonian Libraries

The British architect, or, The builders treasury of stair-cases : containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... shewing their most convenient situation and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved by the best hands, on sixty folio copper-plates / / By Abraham Swan, architect.

The British architect, or, The builders treasury of stair-cases : containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... shewing their most convenient situation and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved by the best hands, on sixty folio copper-plates / / By Abraham Swan, architect.

London : Printed for and sold by Robert Sayer ..., [174-?]

viii, 16 p., LX leaves of plates ; chiefly ill. ; 43 cm.

Probable range for date of publication from NUC Pre-1956, v. 578, p. 119-120.

Plates signed by Swan; some plates also signed: B. Cole sc.; E. Rooker sc.

Head-piece; initial.

Bookplate: Purchased by the Mary Stuart Book Fund ... Cooper Union Library.

Accession no.: 1244.

Bound in old black half-leather and marbled paper boards; gilt-tooled spine.

Architecture -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.

Architecture -- Details

Architecture -- Orders

Decoration and ornament, Architectural

Cole, Benjamin, 1696 or 7-1783, engraver.

Rooker, Edward, 1711 or 12-1774, engraver.

Cooper Union Library, former owner.

Builders treasury of stair-cases

Catalog Source No.:

(OCoLC)ocm01922426

Horizon Information Portal 3.09_74.01

SIRIS homepage

© 2001-2004 Smithsonian Institution All rights reserved.

SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System