A collection of designs in architecture
Subtitle: containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. : With a great variety of sections of rooms; from a common room, to the most grand and magnificent. Their decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes [sic], and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for practice, to which are added curious designs of stone and timber bridges, extending from twenty feet to two hundred and twenty, in one arch. Likewise some screens and pavilions. : In two volumes. Each containing sixty plates, curiously engraved on copper
By: Designed, by Abraham Swan, architect: and engraved, by John Norman
Contributors: Bell, Robert, 1732?-1784; Norman, John, 1748?-1817; Hancock, John, 1737-1793; Smith, Richard, 1735-1803
Publisher: Printed by R. Bell Bookseller, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street
Published: 1775
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Designs and plans; Early works to 1800
Notes: Dedicated to John Hancock, president, American Continental Congress.

Catchword, p. viii: Plate XI.

Watermark: J. Whatman & Co.

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Avery Classics copy: "Richd. Smith Novr. 15. 1775" inscribed on t.p. He was one of the five original N.J. delegates to the Continental Congress.

Evans, C. American bibliography, 14481

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 3291

Hitchcock 1250