Table of Contents

Acknowledgement; Preface; Key to the bibliographical format; Abbreviations; Key to the symbols of locations; Introductory essays; 1. Books on the orders; 2. Books of designs and pattern-books; 3. Carpenters' manuals; 4. Measuring and price books; 5. Books on Bridges; 6. Archaeological books; 7. Publishers and booksellers; 8. Architectural Engraving; Notes to the Introductory essays; Authors and books: Robert Adam to William Wrighte; Addenda; Chronological index of titles and editions 1556 to 1800; Index.

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This 1990 account of architectural books printed in Britain surveys a body of complex literature largely uncharted in bibliographical terms.