Various Kinds of Floor Decorations Represented Both in Plans and Perspective Being Useful Designs for Ornamenting the Floors of Halls, Rooms, Summer Houses, &c. ... in Twenty Four Copper Plates.

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British Library

T133051

The titlepage is engraved - Plates dated 1739. Horizontal chain lines. Another edition entitled: 'Floor-decorations of various kinds' was also published in [1739].

London : printed for John Bowles, [1739]. [2]p.,24plates ; 8