The gentleman's and builder's repository: or, Architecture display'd
Subtitle: containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry : as also the most easy, expeditious, and correct methods for attaining the knowledge of the five orders fo architecture, by equal parts, and fewer divisions, than any thing hitherto published : together with all such rules for arches, doors, windows, ceiling-pieces, chimney-pieces, and their particular embllishments, as can be required : likewise a large variety of designs for truss roofs; with the method of finding the hip, either square or bevel : also, the most certain and approved methods of forming a number of different stair cases, with their twisted rails, &c. : the whole embellished, not only with eighty four plates, in quarto, but such variety of cieling-pieces, shields, compartments, and other curious and uncommon decorations, as must needs render it acceptable to all gentlemen, artificers, and others, who delight in, or practice, the art of building
By: the designs regulated and drawn by E. Hoppus, surveyor, and engraved by B. Cole
Edition: 2nd ed., carefully rev. and re-examined from the press; with the addition of a new frontispiece, representing the intended front of the new mansion-house for the Lord Mayors of the city of London; and a complete table of contents, alphabetically digested by E.H. aforesaid.
Series: American architectural books -- reel 4, no. A 31
Publisher: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Hodges and B. Cole
Published: 1973
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Other titles: Architecture displayed.
Notes: Engr. front., illus., head-pieces, end-pieces, initials.

This is the second edition of the item Park lists as no. 32, for which no date is provided.

Based on the Helen-Park bibliography of the same title.

Printers' lists at end. Plates bound out of order.

Park lists as no. 32, but rather the sixth edition of Park no. 31, which she dates at 1760.

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