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, Fluting, Saburg, Dentules, Modillions, &c. Also to proportion Their Doors, Windows, Intercolumnations, Portico's, 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 Modillions. II. Block and Cantaliver 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.

Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751, author.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Orders.

Architecture.

Architecture--Details.

Physical Description:

34 pages, 2 unnumbered pages,plates ; 16⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill, M.DCC.LVII. [1757]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a final advertisement leaf.

Price from imprint: price 4 s. 6 d.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T77976.

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