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 on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chinmey-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, obelisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings, and iron works. Proportioned by aliquot parts. With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. To which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, 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, modillions, &c. The like, for the immedia

People / Organizations

• Batty Langley (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for S. Harding: and sold by B. Dod, in Ave-Mary-Lane; and J. Marks, on the Pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1736.

Publication year

1736

ESTC No.

T162325

Grub Street ID

201144

Description

24p.,CLXXXVI,14 plates ; 4°.

Note

B. L. = Batty Langley.

Uncontrolled note

Should date in fact read 1756 (= t162323)? Queried with D May '86