Abraham Swan

Books by Abraham Swan

Total count: 26

• The British architector, The builders treasury of stair-cases ; containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders than has hitherto been published, by a scale of twelve equal parts ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... shewing their most convenient situation and the form of their ascending in the most grand manner ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ...

  R. Sayer1740-01-01
• The British architector, the builder's treasury of stair-cases. ... The whole being illustrated ... by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates. By Abraham Swan, ...

  printed for the author: and sold by Thomas Meighan; and W. Meadows1745-01-01
• The British architect, or, The builder's treasury of stair-cases... the whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples curiously engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates

  Printed for the Author and sold by Thomas Meighan1745-01-01
• A collection of designs in architecturecontaining new plans and elevations of houses, for general use ... : to which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... : in two volumes ...

  Printed for and sold by the author; ... by Brotherton ...; Mr. Buckland ...; H. Piers and partner ...1757-01-01
• A collection of designs in architecturecontaining 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 decorations, viz. bases, surbases, architraves, freezes, and cornices properly inriched with foliages, frets and flowers, in a new and grand taste. With margents 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

  Printed for and sold by Robert Sayer1757-01-01
• The British architect: or, The builder's treasury of staircases.Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hitherto been published ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved by the best hands on sixty folio copper-plates.

  1758-01-01
• Designs in carpentrycontaining domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices.

  The author1759-01-01
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  Designs for chimniesand 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. By Abraham Swan, ..

  printed for the author: and sold by Henry Webley, and James Buckland1765-01-01
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  Designs for chimnies and the proportions they bear to their respective roomscontaining more than eighty examples of this kind : also variety of arches, doors, and windows : to which is added, a concise, but clear description of the five orders regulated by a scale of twelve equal parts : with some observations on rules and methods used in drawing : the whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates

  Printed for the author and sold by Henry Webley, in Holborn, and James Buckland, in Pater-noster Row1765-01-01
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  The carpenters complete instructor in several hundred designs, consisting of domes, trussed roofs, and various cupolaswith the methods of securing them on the roofs for churches, chapels, houses, and other buildings : shewing the most approved manner of lighting stair-cases with various sorts of lanthorns in a new and elegant taste : explaining the manner of piecing beams, or plating, or any sort of bandage for timber spires for churches, &c., truss partitions, framing of flooring, trussing of beams, angle brackets, cornices, coving, form of groins, hips, &c. : to which is annexed, a great variety of timber bridges, of various dimensions

  Printed for Robert Sayer ...1768-01-01
• Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs, for chimney piecesfrom the plain and simple, to the most superb and magnificent, properly adapted to rooms, halls, saloons, lobbies, &c. of every dimension; with the proportions they bear to each, and full and complete instructions to workmen; enriched with a great variety of arches, doors .. &c. To which is added, a concise and clear description of the five orders of architecture ...

  Printed for Robert Sayer1768-01-01
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  The carpenter's complete instructorin several hundred designs, consisting of domes, trussed roofs, and various cupolas: ... By Abraham Swan, architect

  printed for Robert Sayer1768-01-01
• The British architect; The builder's treasury of stair-cases ... illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved on sixty folio copperplates

  Printed typographically by John W. Folsom, for John Norman1794-01-01
• Some XVIIIth century designs for interior decorationwith details selected from the published works of Abraham Swan

  J. Tiranti & company1923-01-01
• Interior decoration of the eighteenth century(woodwork, wall-treatments, staircases, chimneypieces and other details)Revised ed.

  Tiranti1928-01-01
• The British architect (Da Capo Press series in architecture and decorative art)

  Da Capo Press1967-01-01
• Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs for chimney pieces ... to which is added a concise and clear description of the five orders of architectureregulated by a scale of twelve equal parts; with observations on rules and methods to be observed in drawing the whole

  Gregg Pub.1972-01-01
• Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs for chimney pieces...properly adapted to rooms,halls,saloons,lobbies,etc. of every dimension, with the proportions they bear to each and full and complete instructions to workmen...to which is added a concise and clear description of the five orders of architecture....

  Gregg1972-01-01
• Upwards of one hundred and fifty new designs of chimney pieces ...

  Printed for R. Sayer1973-01-01
• The carpenter's complete instructor in several hundred designsconsisting of domes, trussed roofs, and various cupolas ...

  Printed for R. Sayer1973-01-01
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