Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Halfpenny, Lightholer and Morris - The Modern Builders Assistant 1747




The Modern Builder's Assistant, or, 
A Concise Epitome of the Whole System of Architecture : 
in which the various branches of that excellent study are establish'd on the most...
Published 1747.
Designs for Chimney Pieces Etc.

Timothy Lightoler. 
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754.
Halfpenny, John, 18th cent.
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755.

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For more by Timothy Lightoler see:

The gentleman and farmer's architect :
a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs, being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described ... : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use /

designed and drawn by T. Lightoler ... and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper-plates.


https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7fr0nt6v&view=thumb&seq=1


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  Chimneypiece by John Bacon. 1776.