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, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's and arcades. : Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scroll'd, 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 options, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, truss'd 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.

Contributor:

Ware, Richard, bookseller., Bookseller, Printer.

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751., Artist.

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

Raley, Robert L., Former owner.

Lister, Daniel,., Former owner.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Building.

Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.

Columns--Early works to 1800.

Columns.

Architectural drawing--Detailing--Early works to 1800.

Architectural drawing.

Genre:

Leather bindings (Binding)

Bookplates (Provenance)

Physical Description:

34, [2] p., [1], 99 leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm. (16mo)

Other Title:

Youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer

Place of Publication:

London: : Printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill,, M.DCC.LI. [1751]

Notes:

"(Price 4s. 6d.)" follows imprint at bottom of t.p.

Includes frontispiece and 99 leaves of engraved plates following main text; executed by B. Langley and engraved by T. Langley.

Langley belonged to the Freemasons and his engraved frontispiece illustrating Doric, Tuscan and Corinthian columns represents the Masonic ideals of wisdom, strength and beauty. Cf. Harris.

First published in London, 1741, this popular handbook for 'good workmen, and for the sake of young students' was issued in a 'fit size for a pocket' and reprinted numerous times throughout the 18th century. Cf. Introduction.

Printed on t.p.: "Printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill, MDCCLI."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in full leather with raised bands on spine.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.

Athenaeum copy: Signature on rear paste-down: Daniel Lister.

Athenaeum also has copy of Boston edition, issued [1800] (Raley Collection)

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN), N32210

Harris, E. Brit. architectural books, 433

Archer, J. Literature of Brit. domestic architecture, 377.3