The British architect: or, The builder's treasury of staircases.
Subtitle: Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates.
By: By Abraham Swan, architect
Published: 1758
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Architecture -- Early works to 1800; Stair building; Staircases