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| 044 | # | # | $a uk |
| 100 | 1 | # | $a Chambers, William |
| 240 | 1 | 1 | $a [Treatise on civil architecture. $f 1768.] |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | $a A Treatise On Civil Architecture, In Which The Principles of that Art are laid down, And Illustrated by a great Number of Plates, Accurately Designed, and Elegantly Engraved by the best Hands. By William Chambers, Member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, of the Royal Academy of Architecture in Paris, and of the Society of Sciences in Stockholm, Architect to the King, the Queen, and Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales. The Second Edition. |
| 246 | 3 | 8 | $a Chambers' Works |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed by J. Dixwell, in St. Martin's Lane. To be had at the Author's House in Berner Street, Oxford Road; likewise of Cadell, Nourse, and Wilson, in the Strand; Durham, Charing Cross; R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; Sayer in Fleet Street; and Webley near Chancery Lane, Holborn. $c M DCC LXVIII. $c [1768] |
| 300 | # | # | $a [4], iv, 86 p., [50] pl.; $c 537 mm. (Folio). |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [T.p., dedic.] - Preface - [Text, and 34 plates]; Directions to the Binder - [16 Plates]. |
| 508 | # | # |
$a Forty-eight plates are signed by the designer, W. Chambers (39 pl.), or draughtsmen I. Gandon (8 pl.) and J. B. Chipriani (1 pl.). Forty-nine are signed by the engravers F. Patton (16 pl.), P. Fourdrinier (12 pl.), E. Rooker (7 pl.), P. Mazel (5 pl.), C. Grignion (4 pl.), T. Miller (4 pl.) and I. Fougeron (1 pl.). The woodcut tailpiece is signed by 'F.H.' As in its first edition, the work is dedicated by William Chambers to John, Earl of Bute. |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a ESTC $c T176681 |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a RIBA, Early printed books, 1 (1994), 599. |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a E. Harris and N. Savage, British Architectural Books (1990), 123. |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a J. Archer, Literature of British domestic architecture (1985), 40.2. |
| 520 | 2 | # | $a This edition of 1768 was a close reprint of the first edition, of 1759. |
| 561 | # | # | $a Bought by the Academy in 1792 (RAA Council Minutes II, 173). |
| 563 | # | # | $a 18th-century mottled calf, rebacked, retaining red and green morocco spine-labels, lettered, 'Chambers' Works Vol I'. |
| 653 | # | # | $a Architecture - Theory |
| 653 | # | # | $a Architecture, British - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 655 | # | 4 | $a Manuals - Treatises - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 655 | # | 4 | $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of $e dedicatee |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Chambers, William $e draughtsman |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Gandon, James $e draughtsman |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Cipriani, Giovanni Battista $e draughtsman |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Patton, Francis $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Fourdrinier, Paul $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Rooker, Edward $d 1711-1774 $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Mazell, Peter $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Grignion, Charles $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Miller, Tobias $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Fougeron, Ignace $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a H., F. $d $e engraver |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d 1802: 18-0-22; 1821: Y-0-05. |