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(Morris, Robert, 1701-1754)

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• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: The architectural remembrancer: being a collection of new and useful designs, of ornamental buildings and decorations. For parks, gardens, woods, &c. To which are added a variety of chimney-pieces, after the manner of Inigo Jones, and Mr. Kent. The whole neatly engraven on fifty copper-plates, in octavo (Printed for the author, 1751) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: Architecture improved, in a collection of modern, elegant and useful designs : from slight and graceful recesses, lodges and other decorations in parks, gardens, woods or forests, to the portico, bath, observatory, and interior ornaments of superb buildings : with great variety of rich embellishments for chimneys in the taste of Inigo Jones, Mr. Kent, &c. : all curiously engraved on fifty copper-plates, octavo (Sold by Robert Sayer ..., 1755), also by Henry Roberts and Remi Parr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: Essay in defence of ancient architecture (Printed for D. Browne, at the Black-Swan, wihtout Temple-Bar; W. Bickerton, in Devereaux-Court, near Temple-Bar; J. Pote, at the Golden-Door, against Suffolk-Street, near Charing-Cross; and J. Walthoe, at Richmond, 1728) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: Essay in defence of ancient architecture. (Printed for D. Browne ... W. Bickerton ... J. Pote ... and J. Walthoe ... , 1728), also by J. Carwitham, John Walthoe, Joseph Pote, Weaver Bickerton, and Daniel Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: An essay in defence of ancient architecture : or, A parallel of the ancient buildings with the modern, shewing the beauty and harmony of the former, and the irregularity of the latter, with impartial reflections on the reasons of the abuses introduced by our present builders, to which is annexed an inspectional table, universally useful (Printed for D. Browne, W. Bickerton, J. Pote, and J. Walthoe, 1970) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: Lectures on architecture : consisting of rules founded upon harmonick and arithmetical proportions in building : design'd as an agreeable entertainment for gentlemen : and more particularly useful to all who make architecture or the polite arts, their study ... (Printed for J. Brindley ..., 1734), also by W. H. Toms, John Millan, John Wilcox, and John Brindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: Lectures on architecture, consisting of rules founded upon harmonick and arithmetical proportions in building ... (Printed for R. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, 1759), also by Robert Sayer, B. Cole, and W. H. Toms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: Modern builder's assistant (Printed for James Rivington and J. Fletcher ... and Robert Sayer ..., 1757), also by T. Lightoler, John Halfpenny, and William Halfpenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morris, Robert, 1701-1754: Select architecture : being regular designs of plans and elevations well suited to both town and country : in which the magnificence and beauty, the purity and simplicity of designing, for every species of that noble art, is accurately treated, and with great variety exemplified, from the plain town-house to the stately hotel, and in the country from the genteel and convenient farm-house to the parochial church : with suitable embellishments : also bridges, baths, summer-houses, &c. ... : illustrated with fifty copper plates, quarto (Sold by Robert Sayer ..., 1755), also by Remi Parr (page images at HathiTrust)

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