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The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. : Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working. : I. The five orders of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modilions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumniations, porticoes, and arcades. Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modilions. : II. Block and cantiliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, and domes. With a section of the dome of St. Paul's, London. : The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper plates. / By B. and T. Langley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langley, Batty, 1696-1751, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37778.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Details.
- Architectural drawing--Detailing.
- Building--Details.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 5-46 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, 99 leaves of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- The first American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlestown [Mass.]: : Printed by S. Etheridge, for Samuel Hill, engraver, numbers 2, Cornhill, Boston., [1800]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Advertised as "just published" in the Salem Gazette, March 7, 1800.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 37778).
- Cited in:
- Evans 37778
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 705
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2491
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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