Designs for chimnies and the proportions they bear to their respective rooms : containing more than eighty examples of this kind : also variety of arches, doors, and windows : to which is added, a concise, but clear description of the five orders regulated by a scale of twelve equal parts : with some observations on rules and methods used in drawing : the whole neatly engraved on fifty octavo copper-plates
A 1765 London architectural pattern book by Abraham Swan, issued through Henry Webley and James Buckland for builders, joiners and gentlemen wanting correct classical proportions for chimneypieces, doors and windows. Its engraved plates show classical mouldings, column orders with numbered module divisions, tessellated floor patterns and scrolled console brackets, which a designer could draw on for period ornament, cornice profiles and interior detailing.
