The builder's director, or Bench-mate : Being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, made easy to the meanest capacity by near 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient and modern, of pedestals, bases, shafts, capitals, columns, architraves, frizes, brackets, cornices, arches, imposts, key-stones, trussees, moldings of raking pediments, frontispieces, portico's, arcades, colonades, chimney-pieces, fretts, guilcohi's, groins, weatherings, moldings for tabernacles, frames, &c. proportioned by minutes and by equal parts. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures. Written for the use of gentlemen delighting in true architecture; and for master and workmen to draw from work after. By Batty Langley, architect.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Details.

Physical Description:

xxivp.,184 plates ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and sold by I. Taylor, No 56, nearly opposite Turnstile, ...; and by all booksellers in town and country, [1790?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With an index.

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 Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N53815.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.