The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs
Subtitle: or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors [etc.] Proportioned by aliquot parts. With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. To which are prefixed, The five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner. than has yet been done. The whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate use of workmen, never before published, in any language. By B. L. Surveyor
Contributors: Fisher, J.; Parker, E.; Smith, Richard, 1850-; Smith, Richard, 1821-1888; Smith, Charles (Of Birmingham, England); Mitchell, Herbert; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library)
Publisher: S. Harding
Published: 1741
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Architectural Decoration and ornament; Early works to 1800; Architecture; Details; Orders
Notes: Avery Classics copy: Imperfect: Plate 2 (2nd group) wanting.

Avery Classics copy:  Gift of Herbert Mitchell.

Avery Classics copy: Drawings, some of architectural elements, on verso of some plates.

Avery Classics copy: Drawings, some of architectural elements, accounts and other annotations on verso of some plates.

Avery Classics copy: Final four plates have illustrations pasted on verso. Illustrations include "Ceiling decorations army and navy club-house," "Oriel window, from John of Gaunt's palace, Lincoln, "South torch of the church of Notre Dame at Oberwesel on the Rhine," and "Prior Crawden's Chapel, Ely, "Saint Georges Church, Ramsgate".

Avery Classics copy: Verso of final plate inscribed: Mr. J. Fisher 13 A Ashton St. London Rd. Manchester, with remnants of red wax on leaf.

Avery Classics copy: Free front endpaper inscribed: E. (?) Parker Cheltenham (?). The inscription is quite faint

Avery Classics copy: Front endpaper inscribed in ink: Richard Smith July 26th, born 1850 stone mason Brimingham. This book a present from his father Joseph Smith stone mason who died on Dec. 29. 1888 aged 67 years. Another hand adds his birth date "born March 17 1821" and other genealogical information pertaining to the Smith family

Avery Classics copy: Parcel post form and customs declaration ([1] sheet) laid in showing that "1 book on architecture was sent by Charles Smith of Birmingham to Wheeling W.Va. USA.

English short title catalogue, T162326

Also avialable electronically and in microform.

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell