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Designs for chimnies: : and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. ... The whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1765]
Call number: 344954
Creator: Swan, Abraham(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (8vo)
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Designs for chimnies: : and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms; Containing more than eighty examples of that kind. Also variety of arches, doors, and windows. ... The whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates

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The carpenter's and joiner's repository:, or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, ... By W. Pain, joiner. Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates