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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1756.

1. A new and accurate description of the present great roads and the principal cross roads of England and Wales, : commencing at London, and continued to the farthest parts of the kingdom, with the several branches leading out of them; and a description of the several towns that stand thereon. Divided into four parts, viz. western, northern, eastern, and southern. To which are added, the ancient Roman roads and stations in Britain. Also some general rules to know the original of the names of places in England, a list of mitred abbots, and an alphabetical list of fairs regulated according to the new style.

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Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 8 unnumbered pages, 168, lxiv pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture : illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, oblisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings [sic], and iron works : proportioned by aliquot parts : with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done : the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. : the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language / by B. L.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts