The builder's jewel : or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrances. 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, 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 Modilions. II. Block and Cantaliver Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Cornices proportioned to Rooms, Angle Brackets, Mouldings for Tabernacle Framer, Pannelling, and Centering for Groins, Truss'd Partitions, Girders, Roofs, and Domer. 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.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Details.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24p.,99plates )

Other Title:

Builder's jewel

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, near Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXLI. [1741]

Notes:

Price from imprint: price 4s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T66029.

OCLC:

642660661