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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.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Furniture--England--Early works to 1800.
- Furniture.
- Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--England--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Early works to 1800.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
- Architecture--Details.
- Architecture--Orders.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 24 pages,CLXXXVI,14 plates ; 4⁰
- Place of Publication:
- 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.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- B.L. = Batty Langley.
- 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, T81513.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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