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, - Hardcover

by William Chambers (Author)

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British Library

T051636

With a list of subscribers. Directions to the binder and errata on verso of final leaf.

London: printed for the author, by J. Haberkorn. To be had at the author's house in Poland Street; likewise of A. Millar, J. Nourse, Wilson and Durham, T. Osborne and 4 others in London], 1759. 6], iv,85, 1]p., plates; 2