The British architect;  The builder's treasury of stair-cases ... illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copperplates
By: by Abraham Swan
Contributors: Green, Isaac
Publisher: Printed typographically by John W. Folsom, for John Norman
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Architecture; Early works to 1800; Staircases
Other titles: Builder's treasury of stair-cases; Swan's British architecture
Notes: First published in 1745.

Some plates have letterpress text.

From t.p.: Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts, free from those troublesome divisons, called Aliquot parts. Shewing also how to glue up their columns and capitals. 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, whereby any gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being examples of all kinds; and necessary directions for such persons as are unacquainted with that branch. III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces, in the most elegant and modern taste. V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry; with the manner of trussed roofs, and the nature of a splayed circular soffit, both in a straight and circular wall, never published before. Together with raking cornices, groins, and angle brackets described.

Avery Classics copy: Inscribed on free front endpaper: "Isaac Green his book"; dated at head of inscription "october [1?]2 1795". Inscribed on front pastedown "Bought at Albany prise 4 [pounds]".

Avery Classics copy: Contemporary full leather binding.

English short title catalogue, W38433

Hitchcock, no. 1249.

Evans 27761