An edition of The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs (1740)

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 ... : finely engraved on 186 large quarto plates : proportioned by aliquot parts : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns : according to Andrea Palladio ... : the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ...

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An edition of The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs (1740)

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 ... : finely engraved on 186 large quarto plates : proportioned by aliquot parts : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns : according to Andrea Palladio ... : the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ...

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Architectural Decoration and ornament, Architecture, Decoration and ornament, Architectural, Details, Early works to 1800, Orders

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Cover of: The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs
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
1741, Printed for and sold by S. Harding on the Pavement in St. Martin's Lane
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Cover of: The city and country builder's, and workman's treasury of designs
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 ... : finely engraved on 186 large quarto plates : proportioned by aliquot parts : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns : according to Andrea Palladio ... : the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ...
1740, Printed by J. Ilive, for Thomas Langley ...
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Plates dated 1738 or 1739, and signed by Batty Langley and Thomas Langley.

Wrong edge of p. iii-iv bound in.

Plate 161 wanting.

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The art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture

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iv, 24 p., 186 leaves of plates :
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