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    • Author/Creator:Crunden, John, ca. 1745-1835.
    • Title:Convenient and ornamental architecture : consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections : beginning with the farm house and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : ... / by John Crunden ; the whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates by Isaac Taylor.
    • Published/Created:London : Printed for the author, and Henry Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, 1767,
    • Physical Description:viii, iv, 26 p. : 70 (i.e. 56) plates ; 28 cm.
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: NA7132 C7 1767+ Oversize
      • Status:No information available 
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: List of subscriber's: p. [i]-iv.
    • Notes:14 of the plates bear two numbers, hence the plates are numbered 1-70.
    • Format:Book
    • References:Harris, E. British architectural books and writers. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994,c1990. 159
    • Subjects:Architecture, Domestic--Great Britain--Designs and plans--Early works to 1800.
      Architecture--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1767.
      Engraving--Specimens--1767.
      Webley, H.--Printer.
    • Also listed under:Taylor, Isaac, 1730-1807, engraver.