The art of fortification delineated: with rules for designing, drawing, washing, and colouring, in the most elegant taste, particular works and buildings, and their Plans, Elevations, Sections, Profiles, and Fronts, in Civil and Military Architecture: As likewise The intire Survey of a Place with its particular Charts, and the Description of Provinces, States, Kingdoms, Empires, &c. A Work absolutely necessary for the Gentleman, Officer, and Architect. Translated by J. Dinsdale. Adorn'd with twenty-three cuts, engrav'd by G. Bickham
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- The art of fortification delineated: with rules for designing, drawing, washing, and colouring, in the most elegant taste, particular works and buildings, and their Plans, Elevations, Sections, Profiles, and Fronts, in Civil and Military Architecture: As likewise The intire Survey of a Place with its particular Charts, and the Description of Provinces, States, Kingdoms, Empires, &c. A Work absolutely necessary for the Gentleman, Officer, and Architect. Translated by J. Dinsdale. Adorn'd with twenty-three cuts, engrav'd by G. Bickham
- R`egles du dessein, et du lavis.
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London : printed and sold by E. Owen, at his Printing-Office, in Hand-Court, Holborn; G. Bickham, in May's Buildings, Covent-Garden; J. Wren, near Great Turnstile, Holborn; and by the booksellers in town and country, M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]
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Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, attributed name.
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- 1748
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- N31039
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- 19948
- Description
- [2],iv,[1],iv-viii,161,[7]p., plates ; 8°.
- Note
- A translation of Buchotte's "Les r`egles du dessein, et du lavis"
Westminster Journal or New Weekly Miscellany (Saturday, March 19, 1748, Issue 329) has an advertisment for this work which includes the following "Translated from the French of M. Buchotte by J. Dinsdale." Cf. 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (online)
Dedication signed: George Bickham.
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- DLC assigns this to George Bickham the Younger