The builder's bench-mate or inestimable pocket companion, making easy to the meanest capacity, the Grecian, Roman, & Gothick orders of architecture, by near five hundred examples taken from the ancients, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Frizes, 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. Never done so before. Engraved on 184 copper-plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, Free from the erroncous Measures publish'd in the Editions of Leoni, Campbell, Hoppus, Ware, &c. 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 only for Archimedes Langley, in Meara's-Court, Dean-Street, Soho 1747, MDCCXLVII. [1747]
Subjects:	Architecture / Early Works To 1800 Architecture / Details Architecture / Orders
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0884700600?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa