The builder's chest-book : or a complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where by way of Dialogue in Nine Lectures the Etymology, Characters, Proportions, Profiles, Ornaments, Measures and Dispositions of the Members of their several Columns and Entablatures are distinctly considered and explain'd with respect to the Practice of Pallaaio. Together With the manner of drawing the Geometrical Elevation of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, and to measure the several Parts of Buildings in general. The whole exemplified by way of Dialogue, in a very concise and familiar manner, illustrated on seven copper-plates: Being a necessary Companion for Gentlemen, as well as Masons, Carpenters, Joyners, Bricklayers, Plasterers, Painters, &c. and all others concern'd in the several Parts of Buildings in general. By B. Langley of Twickenham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Orders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6],vi,139,[9]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Builder's chest-book

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Wilcox, at the Green Dragon, in Little Britain, MDCCXXVII. [1727]

Notes:

With an index.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T106322.

OCLC:

642254846