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, chinmey-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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24p.,CLXXXVI,14 plates )

Other Title:

City and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs or The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for S. Harding: and sold by B. Dod, in Ave-Mary-Lane; and J. Marks, on the Pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1736.

Notes:

B. L. = Batty Langley.

Reproduction of original from National Library of Ireland.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T162325.

OCLC:

509025920