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 InfoPhiladelphia : Printed by R. Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street, M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]
Description2 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 10 leaves of plates : illustrations ; (folio)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 14481. ^A478749
General noteNo more published?
References Evans 14481
References Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3291
References Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 1250
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