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William Halfpenny

Died: 1755

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Died: 1755

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Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science: representing the five orders, with their several doors & windows, taken from Inigo Jones & other celebrated architects : to each plate tables containing the exact proportions of the several parts are likewise fitted : very usefull to all true lovers of architecture but particularly so to those who are engaged in ye noble art of building

1724

William Halfpenny

Twelve beautiful designs for farm-houses: with their proper offices and estimates of the whole and every distinct building separate; with the measurement, and value of each particular article, ... By William Halfpenny, ...

1750

William Halfpenny, Robert 1725-1794 Sayer

Rural architecture in the Chinese taste being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen : also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected

1752

William Halfpenny

The art of sound building, demonstrated in geometrical problems shewing geometrical lines for all kinds of arches, niches, groins, and twisted rails, both regular and irregular : with several other draughts of buildings and staircases : all curiously engraven on copper plates : wherein are laid down (suited to every capacity) easy practical methods for carpenters, joiners, masons, or bricklayers, to work by

1725

William Halfpenny

Useful architecture: in twenty-one new designs for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns; with their respective offices, &c. ... Together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only, ... By William Halfpenny, ...

1752

William Halfpenny

The country gentleman's pocket companion, and builder's assistant, for rural decorative architecture containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, temples, summer-houses, lodges, huts, grotto's, &c. in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste, with proper directions annexed : also the exact estimate of their several amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable : correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates

1753

William Halfpenny, John 18th Cent Halfpenny, Remi B. 1723 Parr

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 familiar principles and rendered adequate to every capacity ...

1757

William Halfpenny, John Halfpenny, Morris, Robert, T. Lightoler

Practical architecture; or, A sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science: representingthe five orders, with their several doors & windows, taken from Inigo Jones & other... architects.

1720

William Halfpenny

Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented being twenty new plans and elevations, on twelve copper-plates : containing a great variety of magnificent buildings, accurately described : as also, several of a smaller kind elegantly design'd, with all necessary offices, of great strength, easy construction, and graceful appearance : scales are annexed, and regular estimates are made for each design : the whole carefully calculated by the great square : with instructions to workmen, &c. in several pages of letter-press : intended as an improvement of what has been published of that sort

1752

William Halfpenny

Magnum in parvo, or, The marrow of architecture: shewing how to draw a column with its base, capital, entablature, and pedestal : and also an arch of any of the five orders ... according to the proportions laid down by ... Palladio ...

1728

William Halfpenny

New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings, &c on fourteen copper plates

1750

William Halfpenny

Perspective made easy: or, a new method for practical perspective. Shewing the use of a new-invented senographical protractor; ... together with the draughts of several remarkable places, in and about the cities of Bristol and Bath; in twenty-six copper plates. By William Halfpenny

1731

William Halfpenny

Rural architecture in the Gothick taste.: Being twenty new designs, for temples, garden-seats, summer-houses, lodges, terminies, piers, &c. on sixteen copper plates. With instructions to workmen, and hints where with most advantage to be erected.

1752

William Halfpenny

Arithmetick and Measurement, Improv'd by Examples and Plain Demonstrations: Wherein Are Laid down the Different Customary Perches, and Other Measures, ... Revised, Corrected, and Improved, by William Davidson,

1748

William Halfpenny

The builder's pocket-companion shewing an easy and practical method for laying down of lines, for all sorts of arches and curves used in house-building, ship-building, gardening &c. ...

1728

William Halfpenny

[Twenty new designs of Chinese lattice and other works, for stair-cases, gates, palings, hatches, &c. on six folio copperplates, with full instructions annex'd to the several divisions, scantlings, &c. thereby making the whole easy to workmen of every capacity]: published according to Act of Parliament, December 16, 1750

1750

William Halfpenny

Six new designs for convenient farm-houses: with their proper offices : ... both in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ...

1751

William Halfpenny

New designs for Chinese doors: windows, piers, ... by Will. and John Halfpenny, ... Part III. ...

1755

William Halfpenny

Six (Six, Thirteen) New Designs for Convenient Farm-Houses

2018

William Halfpenny

New Designs for Chinese Doors, Windows, Piers, ... by Will. and John Halfpenny, ... Part III.

2018

William Halfpenny