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, Chimney-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):

Furniture--England--Early works to 1800.

Furniture.

Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--England--Early works to 1800.

Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.

Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Early works to 1800.

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

Place of Publication:

London : printed for John and Francis Rivington, at No 62, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; L. Hawes and W. Clarke and R. Collins, at No 32, in Pater-Noster-Row; William Johnston, at No 16, in Ludgate-Street; and J. Millan, at Charing-Cross, 1770.

Notes:

B.L. = Batty Langley.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T81513.

OCLC:

642704901