ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, - 



No. 52, HIGH HOLBORN. 



JOSIAH TAYLOR has the satisfaction of informing his Scientific Friends 1 

 and the Public in general, that he has Opened a Shop for the present, seven houses i 

 from his former premises (destroj-ed by fire), where all Works on ARCHITECTURE 

 THEORETICAL and PRACTICAL, and CIVIL ENGINEERING, axe eonstajitly 

 on Sale, with a liberal Discount for Ready Money. 



GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. 



JOSIAH TAYLOR begs leave to inform Architects and Amateurs, that he has on Sale 

 good Impressions of , 



The ANTIQUITIES of ATHENS; measured and delineated by Jambs Sxuart, 

 F. R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett, Painters and Architects, in four large Volumes, 

 Polio, Price 251. 4s. in Boards. — This work contains 384 Plates, engraved by the best 

 Artists, of Views, Architecture, Plans, &c. with Letter-press, historical and descriptive, 

 illustrating, by a research of many years' labour and great expense, the purest Examples of 

 Grecian Architecture, many of which no longer exist, and the traces of them can be found 

 only in this work. 



The Fourth Volume, which is just published, contains all the remaining Sculpture of the 

 Temple of Minerva at Athens, with sundry Fragments found in the Greek Islands -. also the 

 entire Details of the Antiquities at Pola, in Istria, from the Drawings left by Mr. Stuart. 

 Engraved on 103 Plates, Imperial Folio. 71. 7s. Boards. 



_ AN ESSAY on the DORIC ORDER of ARCHITECTURE, containing an histo- 

 rical View of its Rise and Progress among the Ancients, with a critical Investigation of its 

 Principles of Composition, and Adaptation to modern Use, illustrated by Figures from the 

 principal Antique Examples, drawn to one Scale, on 7 Plates. By E. Aikin, Architect. 

 Large Fojio. 1/. 5s. Boards. 



Books recently published by J. Taylor, 



1. TREDGOLD'S ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES of CARPENTRY. Quarto, 

 ■with 22 Plates. II. 4s. Boards. 



2. TREDGOLD'S PRACTICAL ESSAY on the STRENGTH of IRON. 8vo. 

 Pour Plates. I2s. Boards. 



3. NICHOLSON'S CARPENTER'S NEW GUIDE. Quarto. 84 Plates. Sixth 

 Edition, i;. Is, bound. 



4. NICHOLSON'S CARPENTER and JOINER'S ASSISTANT. Quarto. 79 

 Plates. Fourth Edition. 1/. Is. bound. 



5. NICHOLSON'S TREATISE on the CONSTRUCTION of STAIRCASES and 

 HANDRAILS. Quarto. 39 Plates. 18s. bound. 



6. NICHOLSON'S INSTRUCTOR in DRAWING and WORKING the FIVE 

 ORDERS. Octavo. 41 Plates. 10s. Gd. bound. 



7. NICHOLSON'S RUDIMENTS of PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE. Octavo. 

 Illustrated with 38 Plates engraved by Lowry. 14s. Boards. 



8. PAIN'S PRACTICAL HOUSE CARPENTER. Quarto. 148 Plates. 18s. 

 bound. 



9. POCOCK'S MODERN FINISHINGS for ROOMS. Quarto. 8C Plates. 

 2/. 2s. bound. 



CIVIL ENGINEERING. 



This Day is published, in Octavo, illustrated with 8 Plates and other Figures, Price 18/. 



in Boards, 



1. An HISTORICAL and DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT of the STEAM EN- 

 CINE ; comprising a general View of the various Modes of employing elastic Vapour as a 

 prime Mover in Mechanics. Wi Ji an Appendix of Patents and Parliamentary Papers con- 

 nected with the Subject. By Charles Frei.>erick Partington, of the London Institution. 



2. A PRACTICAL ESSAY on the STRENGTH of CAST IRON; intended for 

 the Assistance of Engineers, Iron Masters, Architects, Millwrights, Founders, Smishs, and 

 others engaged in the Construction of Machines, Buildings, &c. : containing practical Rules, 

 Tables, and Examples ; also an Account of some new Experiments, with an extensive Table 

 of the Properties of Materials. By Thomas Tredgold, Civil Engineer, Member of the In- 

 stitution of Civil Engineers, &c. Octavo, illustrated with 4 Plates. Price 12s. Boards. 



J. TAYLOR, having purchased the remaining Copies of the REPORTS of the late 

 John Smeaton, Civil Engineer, proposes to seU them for tlie present at the following very 

 reduced Prices, viz. 



3. REPORTS, ESTIMATES, and TREATISES, on Canals, Rivers, Harbours, Piers, 

 Bridges, Draining, Embanking, Light-houses, Machinery, Fire Engines, Mills, &c. &c., 

 with other Papers drawn up in the course of his employment, 3 vols. Quarto, witli 74 Plates 

 engraved by Lowjy. Boards, 41. 14s. 6d. published at H. 7s. 



4. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, comprising his Communications to the Royal 

 Society. 12 Plates, 4to Boards, \l. Is. Published at I/, lis. 6d. 



The Reports and Miscellaneous Papers together, 4 vols, Boards, 51. lOs. Published 



