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.

Contributor:

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

Etheridge, Samuel, 1771-1817, Printer.

Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804, Engraver.

Raley, Robert L., Former owner.

Barry, John L., Former owner.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Details.

Architectural drawing--Detailing.

Architectural drawing.

Building--Details.

Building.

Architecture--Orders.

Physical Description:

iv, 5-46 p., [1], 99 leaves of plates : ill. (metal cuts) ; 15 cm. (16mo)

Edition:

The first American edition.

Other Title:

Youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer

Place of Publication:

Charlestown [Mass.]: : Printed by S. Etheridge, for Samuel Hill, engraver, no. 2, Cornhill, Boston., [1800]

Notes:

First published in London, 1741.

No imprint date on t.p.; ESTC, Harris and Hitchcock record imprint date of American edition as 1800.

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

Advertised as "just published" in the Salem Gazette, March 7, 1800.

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

Local Notes:

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

Athenaeum copy: With ms. signature on front endsheet: John L. Barry, Boston.

Athenaeum copy: Bound in full leather, rebacked.

Athenaeum copy: Binder's title: Builder's jewel.

Athenaeum also has copy of a 1751 London edition (Raley Collection)

Cited in:

Evans, 37778

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 705

ESTC, W30065

Harris, E. Brit. architectural books and writers, 446