Modern finishings for rooms : a series of designs for vestibules, halls, stair cases, dressing rooms, boudoirs, libraries, and drawing rooms; with their doors, windows, chimney-pieces, and other finishings, to a large scale : and the several mouldings [sic] and cornices at full size : showing their construction and relative proportions : to which are added some designs for villas and porticos : with the rules for drawing the columns, &c. at large : the whole adapted for use and direction of every person engaged in the practical parts of building / engraved on eighty-six plates, from designs by W. F. Pocock, Architect.

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Pocock, W. F. (William Fuller), 1779-1849, Modern finishings for rooms , 1811

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Creator:: Pocock, W. F. (William Fuller), 1779–1849
Title(s):: Modern finishings for rooms : a series of designs for vestibules, halls, stair cases, dressing rooms, boudoirs, libraries, and drawing rooms; with their doors, windows, chimney-pieces, and other finishings, to a large scale : and the several mouldings [sic] and cornices at full size : showing their construction and relative proportions : to which are added some designs for villas and porticos : with the rules for drawing the columns, &c. at large : the whole adapted for use and direction of every person engaged in the practical parts of building / engraved on eighty-six plates, from designs by W. F. Pocock, Architect.
Additional Title(s):: Finishings for rooms
Published/Created:: London : Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn, 1811.
Physical Description:: 23, [1] p., 86 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA2850 .P63 1811+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3470356
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Illustrations by and after W. F. Pocock.
Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, London.
"Another edition (probably the second) was published by Taylor in 1823, and another 'second edition' followed from M. Taylor in 1835 .... A 'third edition' was published by the same hand in 1837 ..." --Cf. British Architectural Library.
Spine title: Finishings for rooms.
Archer, 263.1
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840 2586
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 50
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in dark blue gilt- and blind-stamped morocco.
Subject Terms:: Architecture -- Designs and plans.
Architecture -- Details.
Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1811.
Gosnell, S. -- Printer.
Interior architecture -- Great Britain -- Designs and plans.
Taylor, J. -- Publisher.
Contributors:: Pocock, W. F. (William Fuller), 1779–1849, ill.
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