The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : Wherein Their Pedestals, Columns, Entablatures, Imposts, and Arches, are taken from the best Examples of the Ancients, and proportioned by equal Parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy Manner, than has been done in any Language. For the Instruction Of Apprentices and Journeymen Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Joiners, Carvers, Turners, Painters, Plaisterers, Cabinet-Makers, &c. (and such Masters) who are unacquainted with so much Architecture, as is absolutely necessary for them to understand, in their respective Professions. And Others, Who desire a Just Knowledge of the Fundamental Rules of that noble Art. By B. Langley, Architect.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural drawing.

Architecture--Orders.

Architecture.

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],8p.,48 plates )

Other Title:

Workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill, [1750]

Notes:

Initial page of advertisements.

Price from imprint: Price 1s. 6d. Bound.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T52729.

OCLC:

642623757