Author: John Joshua KIRBYPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Dr Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made easy both in theory and practice ... By J. Kirby ... Illustrated with ... copper plates, most of which are engrav'd by the author. With a frontispiece by Hogarth
Author: John Joshua KIRBYBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Perspective
Author: The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900: K to Kznac
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842
Author: John ArcherPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
While few historians would dispute the importance of the printed book in the development of domestic design in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, this is the first major study to trace the evolution of architectural ideas during the period by examining the literary output of architects. It is a work of extraordinary scholarship, based on an extensive search of dozens of major library collections, that will serve as a standard resource for researchers and librarians, book dealers and collectors. Most of the book is devoted to descriptions of hundreds of books and periodicals containing original designs for domestic structures. The earliest title described is Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus (1715), an important Palladian manifesto and the first book to illustrate a series of the author's own executed designs for dwellings, intended to redirect and reform British architectural taste, and the latest title is Supplement (1842) to John Claudius Loudon's Encyclopedia. Related materials on agriculture, landscape design, drawing, and perspective also are covered. Each entry includes a bibliographic description of all known editions and a commentary that describes and analyzes the text and plates, focusing in particular on the author's ideas and approaches to design issues. Appendixes to the principal entries provide a checklist of additional handbooks and manuals by important authors such as Crunden, Halfpenny, Langley, Nicholson, Pain, Richardson, Salmon, and Swan, and books showing domestic interiors. There is also a valuable short-title chronological list, and a list of printers, publishers, and booksellers. In a lengthy introductory essay, Archer discusses architecture and the book trade, the format and content of the books, and aspects of architectural theory and design-including ideas of "character" and "retirement," dwelling types such as villas, cottages, and row houses, model housing for laborers, and town and village planning. John Archer is Associate Professor in the Humanities Program at the University of Minnesota.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sidney LeeDictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Author: