细节
SWAN, Abraham. The British Architect: or, the Builder's Treasury of Stair-Cases, London: Printed for and sold by the Author [etc.], 1758. 2 (407 x 250mm.), 60 engraved plates and illustrations (title spotted, occasional light spotting and staining to text and plates, some marginal soiling), contemporary reverse calf (rebacked, rubbed and lightly stained, new endpapers).
cf. Fowler 341 (1794 edition): "This is one of the books which had great influence on the builders and architects of eighteenth-century America. For example, plate L, LI, LIII show elements of the mantels found in the Brice House at Annapolis, Maryland." The first edition of the work was published in 1745.
cf. Fowler 341 (1794 edition): "This is one of the books which had great influence on the builders and architects of eighteenth-century America. For example, plate L, LI, LIII show elements of the mantels found in the Brice House at Annapolis, Maryland." The first edition of the work was published in 1745.