Sunday, 18 August 2019

John Crunden - Convenient and Ornamental Architecture - 1797 Edition.





Convenient and Ornamental Architecture,

Consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations and sections, beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life : 

Engraved on seventy copper plates : with reference and explanation in the letter press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurement.


This edition published 1797.


by John Crunden,1740 -1835.

selected engravings from:

https://archive.org/details/convenientorname00crun


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Crundens principal works were:

Designs for Ceilings; 

Convenient and Ornamental Architecture; 

The Carpenter's Companion for Chinese Railings, Gates, etc. (1770); 

The Joiner and Cabinet-maker's Darling, or Sixty Designs for Gothic, Chinese, Mosaic and Ornamental Frets (1765); 

The design of Boodle's Club, St James's Street, London (1775–76); and The Chimney Piece Maker's Daily Assistant (1776)


























































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  Chimneypiece by John Bacon. 1776.