The British architect, or, The builders treasury of stair-cases
Subtitle: ... 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 Robert Sayer, map and printseller ...
Published: 1760
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Architecture -- Early works to 1800; Staircases -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: British architect.
Notes: Publisher's advertisement (p. [1]-4, 3rd group) lists books published as late as 1768.
First published in 1745.
Signatures: [A]1 B-F² G¹ chi².
LC copy has the 4-page advertising section (chi²), usually found at end following the plates, bound in before the plates.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders ... by a scale of 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.