The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples. Improved from the best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces, Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. Proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts. The like never before Published. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to Draw from and Work after. By Batty Langley, Architect

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Langley, Batty
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for and sold by H. Piers, opposite to Dean-Street, in High-Holborn 1751, 1751
Subjects:	Architectural Drawing / 18th Century Architecture / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0891301100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa