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• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art, as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes, &c. &c. &c. collected from the works of the greatest masters : to which is prefixed an essay on drawing, with introductory rules for the use of learners, in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master. (Printed and published according to Act of Parliament, and sold by R. Sayer, at the Golden-Buck, in Fleet-Street, 1762) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish : ... the whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs ... (Printed for Robert Sayer ..., 1769), also by William Pain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: The carpenters complete instructor in several hundred designs, consisting of domes, trussed roofs, and various cupolas : with the methods of securing them on the roofs for churches, chapels, houses, and other buildings : shewing the most approved manner of lighting stair-cases with various sorts of lanthorns in a new and elegant taste : explaining the manner of piecing beams, or plating, or any sort of bandage for timber spires for churches, &c., truss partitions, framing of flooring, trussing of beams, angle brackets, cornices, coving, form of groins, hips, &c. : to which is annexed, a great variety of timber bridges, of various dimensions (Printed for Robert Sayer ..., 1768), also by Abraham Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: The country gentleman's pocket companion, and builder's assistant, for rural decorative architecture : containing, thirty-two new designs, plans and elevations of alcoves, floats, temples, summer-houses, lodges, huts, grotto's, &c. in the Augustine, Gothick and Chinese taste, with proper directions annexed : also the exact estimate of their several amounts, which are from twenty-five to one hundred pounds, and most of them portable : correctly engraved on twenty-five copper plates (Printed for, and sold by Robert Sayer ..., 1753), also by William Halfpenny, Remi Parr, and John Halfpenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: Drawing made easy (Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and print-sellers, (No. 53) Fleet-street, 1794), also by Carington Bowles and John Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs, being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described ... : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use (Printed for Robert Sayer ..., 1762), also by T. Lightoler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: 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 Morris, B. Cole, and W. H. Toms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: A new and compleat system of architecture, delineated in a variety of plans and elevations : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto and appropriated to the several uses and situations required, and estimates of each design : prefixed to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same, intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. : also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : to which is added a method of discharging and supporting of arches in bridges, as it often happens that there is a sinking in the piers : the whole comprised on forty-seven copper -plates, with explanations thereto in common press work (Printed for R. Sayer, map and printseller, at the Golden-Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet Street, 1759), also by William Halfpenny, Remi Parr, and Nathaniel Parr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: Rural architecture in the Chinese taste : being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen : also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected (Printed for Robt. Sayer ..., 1755), also by William Halfpenny and John Halfpenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: Rural architecture in the Gothick taste : being twenty new designs, for temples, garden-seats, summer-houses, lodges, terminies, piers, &c. : on sixteen copper plates : with instructions to workmen, and hints where with most advantage to be erected (Printed for and sold by Robert Sayer ..., 1752), also by William Halfpenny and John Halfpenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794: Twelve beautiful designs for farm-houses : with their proper offices, and estimates of the whole and every distinct building separate : with the measurement and value of each particular article, adapted to the customary measurements of most part of England ... (Printed for Robert Sayer, map and printseller, at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, 1759), also by William Halfpenny (page images at HathiTrust)

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