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, I. The five orders-of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's, and arcades. Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scroll'd, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modillions. II. Block and cantaliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, truss'd partitions, girders, roofs and domes. With a section of the dome of St. Paul's, London. The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engr

People / Organizations

• Batty Langley (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill, M.DCC.LI; [1751]

Added name

Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751.

Publication year

1751

ESTC No.

N32210

Grub Street ID

20963

Description

34,[2]p.,plates ; 16°.

Note

With a final advertisement leaf

Price on title page: (Price 4s. 6d.)

Uncontrolled note

NjP copy: 13.5 x 10cm; gathered in 4's; horizontal chain lines