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- A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper.
- Contributor Names
- Swan, Abraham.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Created / Published
- London [1758]
- Subject Headings
- - Architecture, Georgian--England--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800
- - Architecture, Domestic--England--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800
- Notes
- - First published in 1757. Plates 61-65 at end of v. 2 are dated 1758.
- - LC copy has vols. 1-2 bound together.
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1756
- - ESTC N27410
- - Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975; inscription on flyleaf: James Sisley, Margate, Janu[ar]y 9th, 1854.
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- - LAC ecr 2019-10-11 update (1 card)
- Medium
- 2 v. 125 plates. 40 cm.
- Call Number/Physical Location
- NA2515 .S9
- Digital Id
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.1756.1
- Library of Congress Control Number
- 73212704
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- https://lccn.loc.gov/73212704
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Swan, Abraham, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper. [London, 1758] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/73212704/.
APA citation style:
Swan, A. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1758) A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper. [London] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/73212704/.
MLA citation style:
Swan, Abraham, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper. [London, 1758] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/73212704/>.
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