A volume that offers insight on how the characteristics of the Five Orders can be successfully used in the creation of staircases. It begins by offering a succinct description of the orders and the main architectural elements of the buildings. Then it continues with the explanations of the 100 engravings that illustrate it. There are drawings, sections, elevations and measurements at scale of: Tuscan Order (base, capital, architrave, cornice and freeze); Doric Order; Ionic Order; Corinthian Order; Composite Order; Arches of all Orders; Designs from Palladio, of Arches over Arches; Designs of Doors and Windows; Cornices for Doors, or Windows; Manner of Proportioning Pedestal Stairs; Rail and Balluster; Sorts of Pedestal Stairs; Section of a Rail; Flight of Braket Stairs; Stair-Case with Two Flights; Stair-Case with Three Flights; Manner of Squaring Twift-Rails; Common Stair-Case; Circular Soffice for Doors and Windows; Cornice for a Chimney; Cornices and Architraves; Mouldings for Frames; Chimney-Pieces; Designs of Chimneys; Angle-Brackets, Groins and Frets; Truffes; Manner of laying a Frame in Ledgment.
Swan, Abraham (fl.1725-1768), architect
A volume dedicated to the Designs of Inigo Jones, consisting of 73 plates of plans and elevations of Public and Private Buildings. To this collection are added designs of Doors, Windows, Gates, Peers, Chimneys, Insides of Rooms, and Ceilings; also some designs of buildings by the Earl of Burlington. Content of the Plates: General Plan of the Palace; General Plan of the Principal Apartments of the Palace; Plan of King's Apartments; Front of Palace next the Park; The Fifth Order of one of the Pavilions of the foregoing Front with the Plan; The Second Order in large; Front of Palace next the River; The First Order of the Wing of the foregoing Front in large, with the Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; Front next Westminster; The First Order of one of the Towers of the foregoing in large, with the Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; The Third Order in large, with the Plan; The Cupola in large, with the Plan; The Front of one side of the Palace, within the great Court and Section of the Buildings at each end of it, with the Side of the Towers; The First Order of the middle of the foregoing Front in large, with the Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; The Third Order in large, with the Plan; The Basement and First Order of one of the Pavilions of the foregoing Front, in large, with the Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; Section of the Palace through the Square Court, and the Courts on each side of it, with the Fronts of the Courts on that side next to the Thames; The First Order of the Front of one of the side-Courts in large, with a Plan; The Second Order in large, with the Plan; Section of the King's Apartments, with the Front of the Circular Court; The First Order of the foregoing Front, which is the Persian, in large, with the Plan; The Second Order, which is the Cariatides in large, with the Plan; The Section of the Chapel, by the same Scale as the foregoing Specimens; The Section of the Banqueting-House , by the same Scale; Plan of the Ceiling of the Banqueting-House , by the same Scale; Designs of Windows; Venetian Windows; Designs for Doors; Designs for Rustic Doors; Designs for Temple-Bar, in the Manner of a Triumphal Arch; Rustic Gates; Peers, with Columns, Pilasters and Niches; Rustic Peers with Niches; Designs for Chimney-pieces with their ornaments; Chimney-piece at Sir Robert Walpole's at Houghton; Chimney-piece in the Drawing-room at Kensington; Ceilings; Sides of two Rooms; Side of a Cube Room; Designs for a public Gallery; A Building of the Earl of Burlington's at Chiswick; The Principal Front and Plan of the Apartments of the foregoing House; Inside of the Octagonal Hall; The other Front of the foregoing House, and the Plan and Elevation of a Temple in the Garden at Chiswick. The Second Volume contains 63 plates of the following Buildings: Country House, with Out Houses, Barns, Stables etc.; Design for a Country House; Lodge, with a Ionic Portico; Houses; House, with a Portico of a Composite Order, belonging to His Grace the Duke of Queensbury; House designed by the Earl of Burlington; House, with an Arcade to each Front; House, with Portico's of the Corinthian Order; House, with an Arcade, standing on a Terras, about which is a Ballustrade; Circular Building, with a Portico of the Corinthian Order; Octagonal Building with a Doric Portico, within which is a Circular Court, with Corinthian Pillars; Octagonal Building with Portico's of the Doric Order, in the middle of which is a Octagonal Hall; Circular Building with Ionic Portico's; Square Building, with an Arcade and Portico; Design for Belvoir-Castle; Building with four distinct Appartments; Building of four Appartments, with Portico's in each Front; Plan of a Palace, with two large Courts; Plan of a Palace consisting of 5 Courts with Arcades; Design for a Building with Portico's in the Front; Arcade and Front of the Dormitory at Westminster, by the Earl of Burlington; Design for a School and 40 Alms Houses by the Earl of Burlington, for Sevenoak in Kent; Portico at the West End of the Old Cathedral of St. Paul's; Church of Santo Georgio at Venice, built by Palladio.
Jones, Inigo (1573–1652) architect and theatre designer
A Volume that draws the reader's attention towards the remarkable development of the Ecclesiastical Buildings erected in London in the 17th and 18th centuries, from the Designs of Sir Christopher Wren and of his immediate successors. It offers an Introduction, Descriptive and Critical texts and a series of illustrations (photographs, measured drawings, plans and elevations) that depict representative constructions. Buildings included: St. Alban, Wood Street; Allhallows, The Great Thames Street; Allhallows, Bread Street; Allhallows, Lombard Street; Allhallows, Barking; St. Andrew, Holborn; St. Andrew, Wardrobe; St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate; St. Anne, Limehouse; St. Antholin, Budge Row; St. Augustine and St. Faith; St. Bartholomew, Exchange; St. Benet, Fink; St. Benet, Paul's Wharf; St. Benet, Gracechurch; St. Bride, Fleet Street; St. Catherine Cree; Christ Church, Newgate; Christ Church, Spitalfields; St. Christopher-le-Stocks; St. Clement, Danes; St. Clement, Eastcheap; St. Dionis, Backchurch; St. Dunstan in the East; St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street; St. George, Bloomsbury; St. George, Botolph Lane; St. Giles in the Fields; St. James, Garlickhythe; St. James, Picadilly; St. Lawrence, Jewry; St. Leonard, Shoreditch; St. Magnus, London Bridge; St. Margaret, Pattens; St. Margaret, Lothbury; St. Martin in the Fields; St. Martin, Ludgate; St. Mary, Aldermanbury; St. Mary at Hill; St. Mary-le-Bow; St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street; St. Mary, Abchurch; St. Mary, Somerset; St. Mary, Aldermary; St. Mary, Woolnoth; St. Mary-le-Strand; St. Mathew, Friday Street; St. Michael, Cornhill; St. Michael, Wood Street; St. Michael, Queenhythe; St. Michael, Bassishaw; St. Michael, Paternoster Royal; St. Mildred, Bread Street; St. Mildred, Poultry; St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey; St. Olave Jewry; St. Paul's Cathedral; St. Paul, Covent Garden; St. Peter, Cornhill; St. Stephen, Walbrook; St. Stephen, Coleman Street; St. Swithin, London Stone; St. Vedast, Foster; St. John, Westminster; St. Matthew, Spring Gardens.
Birch, George Henry (1842-1904), architect and museum curator
