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, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sun-Dials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Cielings, 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

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Langley, Batty
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for John and Francis Rivington, at No 62, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; L. Hawes and W. Clarke and R. Collins, at No 32, in Pater-Noster-Row; William Johnston, at No 16, in Ludgate-Street; and J. Millan, at Charing-Cross 1770, 1770
Subjects:	Architecture / Details / Early Works To 1800 Architecture / Orders / Early Works To 1800 Architecture / England / Early Works To 1800 Decoration And Ornament, Architectural / Early Works To 1800 Furniture / England / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0489700100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa