by SWAN, Abraham
SWAN, Abraham. THE BRITISH ARCHITECT: OR, THE BUILDER'S TREASURY OF STAIR-CASES. New York: Da Capo, 1967. Folio. Cloth. viii, (ii), viii, 16 pages, 60 plates Reprint of the original 1758 edition of Swan's best known and most popular architectural works that was advertised from Boston to Virginia and was found the libraries of the top architects in colonial America - William Buckland of Virginia and Maryland and Peter Harrison in Rhode Island. It so popular in early America that a reprint of Swan's work was the first architectural book printed in America in Philadelphia in 1775. With a preface by Adolf Placzek. Very good.
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