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Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
Published / Created:: 1759.
Call Number:: JJr38 10
Image Count:: 4
Description:: With his Designs of Chinese buildings. London, 1757.
Publisher:: Printed for the author, by J. Haberkorn [etc.]
Subject (Topic):: Decoration and ornament, Architectural, Architecture, and Details
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 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, and elegantly engraved by the best hands

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796, author, publisher
Published / Created:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Call Number:: JJr38 10
Image Count:: 16
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: The first two or three paragraphs of the preface, and possibly the chapter "Of the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese" were written by Samuel Johnson. Cf. Fleeman.
Publisher:: Published for the author, and sold by him next door to Tom's Coffee-house, Russel-Street, Convent-Garden; also by Mess. Dodsley, in Pall Mall; Mess. Wilson and Durham; Mr. A. Millar, in the Strand, and Mr. R. Willock, in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):: China.
Subject (Topic):: Architecture, Clothing and dress, and Gardens
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils