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.
Alternate Title(s):
City and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs
Published / Created:
London : Printed for S. Harding : And sold by B. Dod, in Ave-Mary-Lane; and J. Marks, on the pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1756.
Physical Description:
24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
By Batty Langley.
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800. | Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800. | Roofs -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800. | Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- England -- Early works to 1800. | Harding, S. -- Publisher. | Dod, B. -- Bookseller. | Marks, J. -- Bookseller. | Newton, W. -- Autograph. | Smith, Samuel -- Autograph. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1756.
Contributors:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751, ill. | Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702–1751, engraver. | Harding, Samuel, d. 1755, publisher.