Batty Langley

British garden designer

Born	1696
Died	1751

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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 one hundred and eighty-fix Copper plates, for piers, gates, doors, windowns, 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-cafes, cielings and iron works ; proprortioned by Aliquot Pars ; with an appendix of fourteen plates of strusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c ; to which are prefix'd the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ; whose members are apportioned by Aliquot Pars, 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, modilions, &c. the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language

by Batty Langley First published in 1740 — 14 editions

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The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer: explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... : the whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper plates

by Batty Langley First published in 1758 — 13 editions

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The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer

by Batty Langley First published in 1741 — 11 editions

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Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions.: In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained.

by Batty Langley First published in 1742 — 7 editions

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Builder's Director

by Batty Langley First published in 1747 — 7 editions

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The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining short and easy rules ... for drawing and working ... THe whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper plates

by Batty Langley First published in 1763 — 7 editions

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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 ... 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 immediate use of workmen, never published before, in any language

by Batty Langley First published in 1740 — 7 editions

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Gothic architecture: improved by rules and proportions, in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... : with plans, elevations and profiles, geometrically explained

by Batty Langley First published in 1742 — 6 editions

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Pomona: or, The fruit-garden illustrated.: Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated ... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit-trees; the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added, a curious account of the most valuable cyderfruits of Devonshire. The whole illustrated with above three hundred drawings of the several fruits, curiously engraven on seventy-nine large folio plates.

by Batty Langley First published in 1728 — 6 editions

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The builder's chest-book: or, A complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture ....

by Batty Langley First published in 1727 — 6 editions

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The London prices of bricklayers materials and works: both of new buildings and repairs, justly ascertained, and the common exactions and abuses therein detected, interspersed with rules for estimating, performing and measuring all kinds of ... brick-works ... : also illustrated with a great variety of designs for plain and rusticated piers, for gates, piazzas, &c., in thirty-two curious copper plates ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1748 — 5 editions

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The builder's director or bench mate.

by Batty Langley First published in 1970 — 4 editions

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The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture: ... For the instruction of apprentices and journey men ... By B. Langley, ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1750 — 3 editions

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New principles of gardening

by Batty Langley First published in 1727 — 3 editions

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Examples from ancient masonry in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations: together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, porticos ...

by Batty Langley 2 editions

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The builders compleat assistant: or, a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. ... By B. Langley.

by Batty Langley First published in 1738 — 2 editions

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The builder's director, or bench-mate: being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and gothic orders of architecture, made easy ... by near 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient and modern, of pedestals, bases, shafts [etc.] ... engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1747 — 2 editions

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The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer: explaining short and easy rules made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... to this edition is added a dictionary of terms used in architecture

by Batty Langley First published in 1763 — 2 editions

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The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs; or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1740 — 2 editions

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Practical geometry: applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration : calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artisans and set to view in four parts ... : to which is annexed an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in selling timber by measure : the whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands

by Batty Langley First published in 1726 — 2 editions

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British garden designer

Born	1696
Died	1751

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OLID: OL1214446A
ISNI: 0000000108642639
VIAF: 4919216
Wikidata: Q2411316
Inventaire.io: wd:Q2411316

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