The British architect: or, The builder's treasury of staircases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hiterto been published ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on sixty folio copper-plates., by Abraham Swan

Title:	The British architect: or, The builder's treasury of staircases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious method of drawing the five orders, than has hiterto been published ... II. Likewise stair-cases ... III. Designs of arches, doors, and windows. IV. A great variety of new and curious chimney-pieces ... V. Corbels, shields, and other beautiful decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary rules of carpentry ... The whole being illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples, curiously engraved ... on sixty folio copper-plates.
Author:	Swan, Abraham
Note:	Printed for the author: and sold by T. Meighan [etc.], 1750

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Subject:	Architecture -- Early works to 1800
Subject:	Stair building
Subject:	Staircases
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