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Author additional ss Halfpenny, William, -1755, ill.

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Subject Terms Architecture -- Early works to 1800.

1. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture : in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity : being useful to the proficient, and easy to the learner : divided into three parts ... / the whole beautifully engraved on eighty five folio copper plates from the designs of William and John Halfpenny, architects and carpenters, Robert Morris, surveyor, and T. Lightoler, carver.

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Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: MDCCVLII [i.e. 1757]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 52 p., 85 [i.e. 84] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts