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; ... By Batty Langley.

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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; ... By Batty Langley.

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printed by J. Ilive, for Thomas Langley
Language
English
Pages
24

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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; ... By Batty Langley.
1740, printed by J. Ilive, for Thomas Langley
Microform in English

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With a list of subscribers.

P.viii misnumbered p.vii, and plate CLXXXVI misnumbered CLXXXIV.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 6426, no. 03).

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Microform
Pagination
vii[i.e.viii],24p.,CLXXXIV[i.e.CLXXXVI]plates
Number of pages
24

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OL21214254M

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June 3, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format '[microform]:' to 'Microform'; cleaned up pagination
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