A collection of designs in architecture : containing new plans and elevations of houses for general use : with a great variety of sections of rooms ... to which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... in two volumes, each containing sixty plates engraved on copper
A mid-eighteenth-century London architectural pattern book by Abraham Swan, published in 1758 for builders and craftsmen, offering house plans, room sections and bridge designs engraved on copper. These four plates show enlarged architectural ornament: cornice mouldings, scrolled consoles, acanthus friezes, Greek key bands and a pierced lattice panel, drawn in fine line with clear profiles a designer could adapt for classical trim and decorative borders.
