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, for Peirs, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney Pieces, Tabernacle Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochps, Pulpits, Types, Altar Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sundials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Ciellings, and Iron Works. Finely engraved on 186 large quarto plate; Proportion by aliquot parts: To which are Prefix's, The Five Orders of Columns; according to Andrea Palladio, whose Members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner, than has been yet done. The Whole interspersed, With sure rules, for Working, all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modilions, &c. The like, for the Immediate Use of workmen never published before, in any Language. By Batty Langley
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed by J. Ilive, for Thomas Langley, in Meard's Court, Dean-Street, Soho
1740, MDCCXL. [1740]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T11861. - P.viii misnumbered p.vii, and plate CLXXXVI misnumbered CLXXXIV. - Price from imprint: price Sixteen Shillings in Sheets. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - With a list of subscribers |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (vii[i.e.viii],24p.,CLXXXIV[i.e.CLXXXVI]plates) 4° |