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Baroque Gardens in Austria
ABC/270 · 1932
Part of Architectural Books Collection
A volume comprising a series of Austrian Gardens from the end of the 17th century. It gives a short introduction focusing on the Italian and French influences that shaped the gardens, followed by descriptions and plates (drawings and photographs) of a few representative examples. The plates depict: Early Gardens; Contemporary Gardens, 18th century; Hellbrunn, near Salzburg; Count Wallenstein's Garden, Prague; Schwarzenberg Palace, Vienna; Belvedere, Vienna; Schonborn, Gollersdorf; Mirabell Gardens, Salzburg; Schlosshof, Marchegg; S. Florian; Schonbrunn; Wrought Iron Gates, Belvedere; Trellis from Schonbrunn; Miscellaneous Vases, Sculptures and Entrance Gates; Kapitel-Schwemme, Salzburg; Horse-Pond in Sigmunds-Platz, Salzburg; Contemporary Map of Europe; Klessheim, near Salzburg; Contemporary Plan of Vienna; Liechtenstein Belvedere, Vienna; Salesian Nunnery, Vienna; Design for Hofburg Garden; Fronburg, near Salzburg; Schloss Wiebach, Hallein. Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey Alan (1900-1996), landscape architect
ABC/271 · 1967
Part of Architectural Books Collection
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 Balustrade; 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 Apartments; Building of four Apartments, 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 Sevenoaks 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
In English Homes, Vol 1
ABC/272 · 1904
Part of Architectural Books Collection
A volume documenting the Interiors of the Most Notable Houses of England historically depicted from Photographs. Buildings included: Agecroft Hall, Lancashire; Apethorpe, Northampton; Audley End, Essex; Belton House, Middlesex; Bowood, Wiltshire; Birtsmorton Court, Gloucestershire; Boston House, Middlesex; Bradfield, Devon; Bramall Halll, Cheshire; Bramshill Park, Hampshire; Boughton Castle, Oxfordshire; Burton Agnes, Yorkshire; Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire; Castle Ashby, Northampton; Castle Howard, Yorkshire; Chastleton House, Oxfordshire; Chawton House, Oxfordshire; Cobham Hall, Kent; Coleshill House, Berkshire; Combe Abbey, Warwickshire; Crewe Hall, Cheshire; Drakelowe Hall, Burton-on-Trent; Dunster Castle, Somerset; Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire; Gifford's Hall, Suffolk; Godinton, Kent; Goodwood House, Sussex; Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire; Groombridge Place, Kent; Haddon Hall, Derbyshire; Hampton Court, Middlesex; Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire; Hatfield House, Hertfordshire; Hewell Grange, Worchestershire; Holme Lacy, Hereford; Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire; Kingston Lacy, Dorset; Knowsley Hall, Lancashire; Lanhydrock, Cornwall; Levens Hall, Westmorland; Littlecote, Wiltshire; Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire; Longleat, Wiltshire; Melbury House, Dorset; Norton Conyers, Yorkshire; Ockwells Manor, Berkshire; Old Place, Sussex; Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk; Parham Park, Sussex; Ragley Hall, Warwickshire; Red Lodge, Bristol; Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire; Rushbrooke Hall, Suffolk; Saltram, Devon; Sandringham, Norfolk; Smithills Hall, Lancashire; South Wraxall Manor, Wiltshire; Speke Hall, Lancashire; Stanway, Gloucestershire; Stoke Park, Buckingham; Stourhead, Wiltshire; Sutton Place, Surrey; Sydenham House, Devon; The Deanery Garden, Sonning; The Vyne, Basingstoke, Hampshire; Tythorp House, Oxfordshire; Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; Wakehurst Place, Sussex; Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire; West Dean Park, Sussex; Westwood Park, Worchestershire; Wilton House, Salisbury; Wolfeton House, Dorset; Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire. Latham, Charles