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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, cabinet-makers, painters, &c. &c. / by B. Langley, architect.
Fine Arts Library - Rare Book NA2810 .L35 1769
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Orders.
- PRO--Spicer, James, of Groton, Connecticut (autograph, 1798).
- PRO--Perkins, G. Holmes (donor).
- Local Subjects:
- PRO--Spicer, James, of Groton, Connecticut (autograph, 1798).
- PRO--Perkins, G. Holmes (donor).
- Physical Description:
- 8 pages, 48 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 12 cm (16mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Printed for R. Clark ..., 1769.
- Local Notes:
- Fine Arts Rare copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in December 1988 from Charles B. Wood bookseller (Catalog 65, no. 233).
- OCLC:
- 21918338
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