Halfpenny, William, -1755
Halfpenny, William
Halfpenny, William, 17..-1755
Halfpenny, William 17..-1755 architecte
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
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Works
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Arithmetick and measurement : improv'd by examples and plain demonstrations: wherein are laid down the different customary perches, and other measures, used in the several Parts of Great-Britain and Ireland. Suitable to all Artists; But more especially those who are employed in Building, Gardening, Surveying Land, &c. To which is added, The Use of an Instrument call'd a Tangent Rule, for the taking any given Distance within a Quarter of a Mile. Revised, corrected, and improved, by William Davidson, Architect and Land Surveyor | |
The art of sound building. | |
The builders's pocket-companion. : Shewing an easy and practical method for laying down of lines, for all sorts of arches and curves used in house-building, ship-building, gardening, &c. also to make the centers or ribs for vaults or cielings, and brackets for coves, either regular or irregular. Together with true and concise rules to find the lengths, bevels, and moulds for the back of a hip, in any kind of roofs, whether square or bevel, hexagon or pantigon, &c. let their rasters be straight, or curves of different sorts. Extracted from the works of several noted authors: illustrated with variety of examples curiously engraven; and several useful problems added never before printed; by Michael Hoare, carpenter | |
Chinese and Gothic architecture properly ornamented. | |
The country gentleman's pocket companion and builder's assistant for rural decorative architecture ... | |
Differens --- Kiosques par --- Halfpenny [estampe] | |
Magnum in parvo; or, The marrow of architecture. | |
The Modern builder's assistant, or, A concise epitome of the whole system of architecture ... | |
A new and compleat system of architecture delineated in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses ... | |
New designs for Chinese gates, palisades, stair-cases, chimney-pieces, ceilings | |
Perspective made easy: or, a new method for practical perspective. Shewing the use of a new-invented senographical protractor; so easy, that a Person, tho' an intire Stranger to Perspective, may, by Reading a few Lines, become Master of the Instrument, without the help of a Master. It's Useful in taking the Perspective Draughts of Towns, Countrys, Houses, and Gardens, or any Objects whatever; much easier than what has hitherto been Practised. With several useful Examples in Practical Perspective. together with the draughts of several remarkable places, in and about the cities of Bristol and Bath; in twenty-six copper plates. By William Halfpenny | |
Practical architecture | |
Quattro libri dell'architettura. | |
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. The whole invented and drawn by William and John Halfpenny. Architects | |
Sistème nouveau et complet de desseins d'architecture, en un recueil de plans et d'élévations de desseins pour des maisons commodes et ornées [...] en 46 planches en taille-douce suivies de leurs explications [estampe] | |
Sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science | |
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, but more particularly for the following counties, viz., Middlesex, Surry, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, &c. ... | |
Useful architecture : in twenty-one new designs for erecting parsonage-houses, farm-houses, and inns; with their respective offices, &c. of various Dimensions at the most moderate Expence, the Largest not exceeding Five Hundred Pounds, and the Smallest under One Hundred Pounds. As will evidently appear By their several Dimensions and Estimates Particularly set forth with Respect both to Brick and Stone, Adapted to the usual Measurement of Great Britain and Ireland. Together with a supplement, containing several designs for building with timber only, with Estimates annext in like Manner. The Whole intended as an Improvement of what has hitherto been given on that Subject, and rendered both Practicable and Beneficial to all concerned in Building |