The architects store-house : being a collection of several designes of frontispieces, doors and vvindow-cases, cieling-pieces, alcoves, chimney-pieces and fountains, with divers other sorts useful in eminent buildings. Likewise a representation of the five columns of architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and Composite. Useful for painters,, carvers, masons, carpenters, bricklayers, joyners, cabinet-makers, plaisterers, &c. Containing fifty cooper-plate prints / collected and set forth by Robert Pricke.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Rob. Pricke, and are to be sold at his Shop Adjoyning to Cripple-Gate within: where likewise is very good Choice of Italian, French, Dutch and English Prints, 1674.
Physical Description:
[2] p., [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3477477
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The plates in the work are copies (often reversed) of plates from books, or suites of plates, issued by various continental publishers. Pricke published translations of some of the books himself, and this volume is based around the etching of one such J. Barbet's 'A booke of archetecture [sic]'"--Cf. British Architectural Library.
Subject Terms:
Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800. | Pricke, Robert -- Publisher. | EHB -- Provenance. | Kenney Collection -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1674.
Contributors:
Barbet, Jean, 1597?-1654, engraver. | Blum, Hans, active 1567, ill. | Fanelli, Francesco, 17th cent., ill. | Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669, ill. | Le Pautre, Jean, 1618–1682, ill. | Marot, Jean, 1619?-1679, ill. | Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640, ill.