The British architect
Subtitle: 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 ...
By: by Abraham Swan. The whole thing being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on ... copper-plates
Publisher: R. Sayer
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Architecture; Early works to 1800; Stair building; Staircases