A collection of designs in architecture : containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. : With a great variety of sections of rooms; from a common room, to the most grand and magnificent. Their decoration, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes [sic], and cornices, properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for practice, to which are added curious designs of stone and timber bridges, extending from twenty feet to two hundred and twenty, in one arch. Likewise some screens and pavilions. : In two volumes. Each containing sixty plates, curiously engraved on copper. / Designed, by Abraham Swan, architect: and engraved, by John Norman. ; Vol. I.
| Author/creator | Swan, Abraham |
| Other author | Norman, John, 1748?-1817, engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed by R. Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street, M,DCC,LXXV. [1775] |
| Description | 2 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 10 leaves of plates : illustrations ; (folio) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14481. ^A478749 |
| General note | No more published? |
| References | Evans 14481 |
| References | Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3291 |
| References | Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 1250 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14481). |