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LEADER: 02395cam 2200325Ia 4500
008 771024s1741 enkaf 00010 eng d
035 $a(OCoLC)3363248
040 $aYUS$edcrb$cYUS$dNRC
049 $aNRCC$xERJ
090 $aNA3310$b.L36 1741
100 1 $aLangley, Batty,$d1696-1751.
245 14 $aThe city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs :$bor, 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 /$cBy B.L., surveyor.
246 18 $aTreasury of designs
246 3 $aBuilders and workman's treasury of designs
246 30 $aArt of drawing and working the ornamental partsof architecture
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for and sold by S. Harding on the Pavement in St. Martin's Lane,$c1741.
300 $a22 p., 200 leaves of plates :$bill. ;$c30 cm.
500 $aSignatures: [B] [superscript 2] C-G [superscript 2] H, 220 +14 plates.
500 $aRaised bands on spine and title typed in gold lettering, and three quarters leather binding.
500 $aFirst published 1740, without the last 14 plates--Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.
596 $a10
650 0 $aDecoration and ornament, Architectural.
650 0 $aArchitecture$xDetails.
650 0 $aArchitecture$xOrders.
655 7 $aRaised bands (Binding)$2rbbin
655 7 $aQuarter bindings (Binding)$2rbbin
948 $a06/15/1993$b03/05/2002
919 $aABH-6190
918 $a445245
926 $aSPECCOLL$bSTACKS$cNA3310 .L36 1741$dBOOKNOCIRC$f1