The builder's director, or Bench-mate: Being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, made easy to the meanest capacity by near 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient and modern, of pedestals, bases, shafts, capitals, columns, architraves, frizes, brackets, cornices, arches, imposts, key-stones, trussees, moldings of raking pediments, frontispieces, portico's, arcades, colonades, chimney-pieces, fretts, guilcohi's, groins, weatherings, moldings for tabernacles, frames, &c. proportioned by minutes and by equal parts. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures. Written for the use of gentlemen delighting in true architecture; and for master and workmen to draw from work after. By Batty Langley, architect
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- Imprint
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London : Printed and sold by I. Taylor, No 56, nearly opposite Turnstile, ...; and by all booksellers in town and country, [1790?]
- Publication year
- 1790
- ESTC No.
- N53815
- Grub Street ID
- 37706
- Description
- xxivp.,184 plates ; 8°.
- Note
- With an index.
- Uncontrolled note
- Josiah Taylor (son of Isaac) was trading at this address: 1781-1799 (Maxted)