Rural architecture in the Chinese taste, being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c. on sixty copper plates with full instructions for workmen also a near estimate of the charge and hints where proper to be erected the whole invented & drawn by Willm. &Inn. halfpenny, architects : The 3d. edition. With the addition of 4 plates in quarto of roofs for Chinese & Indian temples, the manner of fixing their ornaments, covering and carrying off the water, their cornices with the several members adjusted to regular proportion.
| Author/creator | Halfpenny, William |
| Other author | Halfpenny, John, active 18th century, author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : 1755. Printed for Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Feller Lane, Fleetstreet, 1755. |
| Description | 2 unnumbered pages, 8;8;8, 8 pages, plates ; 8⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| General note | In four parts, each with separate titlepage, each differently titled. |
| General note | The general titlepage and the titlepage to part 1 are engraved. |
| General note | Part 1 is by William Halfpenny alone. |
| General note | Another "third edition" has no date after "London" in the imprint and dates are omitted from the statement "Published according to act of Parliament" on the titlepages to the individual parts. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T214810. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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