British architect
Subtitle: or, the builders treasury of stair-cases : illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples curiously engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates
By: by Abraham Swan ...
Publisher: printed for, and sold by the author; A.Webley and Mr Buckland
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Architecture -- Early works to 1800; Staircases -- Early works to 1800
Notes: First published in 1745.
Table of contents: title: Contents, (from t.p.) I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders ... by a scaleof twelve equal parts ... shewing also how to glue up their columns and capitals; title: II. Likewise stair-cases ... shewing their most convenient situation and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner , with a great variety of curious ornaments ...; title: III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows; title: IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces, in the most elegant and modern taste; title: V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations; title: VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry, with the manner of trussed roofs and the nature of a splayed circular soffit ... together with raking cornices, groins, and angle brackets described.