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Halfpenny, William and John / The country gentleman's pocket compantion, and builder's assistant, for rural decorative architecture
(1756)
[List and description of plates], pp. 3-14
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(4) proper Decorations about the Foot of the Dome. The Walls are to be fludded Work, filled with Brick, and ftucco'd within and without; the two Fronts, with their Ornaments, Wood;-:the Roof to be covered with Lead, and the Floor laid with fquared Pavement. The whole may be compleated for Fifty Pounds.' NuMBER -2. is the Elevation of a Chinefe Temple, fix Feet fquare in the Clear, and thir- teen Feet high, open to the Cupola, a Cornice of fix Inches at the Foot of the Roof within, and a Moulding of three Inches at the Feet of the Cupola. The Walls to be ftudded Work, filled with Brick, and ftucco'd within and with- out; the two Fronts with all the Ornaments, Wood ; the Roof to be covered with Lead or Slate, and the Floor laid with fquared Pavement. The whole may be compleated for forty-five Pounds. PLATE II. N UM BER r. is the Elevation of another open Temple, decorated in the indian Tafie, with four equal Fronts; the Clear of the Room is eight Feet fquare, and ten Feet high. The Cieling to be groined in the Nature of a Coach- Head, aad a Fafci c~p'd with a Moulding fevert
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