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Author/Creator:Jones, William, -1757.
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Title:The gentlemen's or builder's companion : containing variety of useful designs for doors, gateways, peers, pavilions, temples, chimney-pieces, slab tables, pier glasses, or tabernacle frames ... / explained on copper plates by Wm. Jones.
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Published/Created:London : Printed for the author, 1739.
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Physical Description:[7] leaves, 60 [i.e. 56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Notes:Each folded plate counted as two.
Engraved through-out.
Contains twenty-eight new designs, not included in the 1736 edition, for rococo tables derived from Nicholas Pineau's 'Nouveau Desseins de Pieds de Tables', mirror frames, chimney-pieces in the classical style and ceilings with rococo ornament. Cf. Harris.
This, along with the 1736 edition by the same author, contains the oldest published designs for furniture by an English author. Cf. Harris.
Illustrations by J[ohn] Carwitham and B[enjamin] Cole; after William Jones.
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References:English short title catalogue, T114933
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994, c1990. 388
Archer 163.2
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Subjects:Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.
Interior decoration--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Furniture design--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1739.
Engraving--Specimens--1739.
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Also listed under:Carwitham, J. (John), engraver.
Cole, Benjamin, 1696 or 7-1783, engraver.
Jones, William, -1757, ill.
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