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, for Peirs, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney Pieces, Tabernacle Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochps, Pulpits, Types, Altar Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sundials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Ciellings, and Iron Works. Finely engraved on 186 large quarto plate; Proportion by aliquot parts: To which are Prefix's, The Five Orders of Columns; according to Andrea Palladio, whose Members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner, than has been yet 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. By Batty Langley

People / Organizations

• Batty Langley (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by J. Ilive, for Thomas Langley, in Meard's Court, Dean-Street, Soho, MDCCXL. [1740]

Publication year

1740-1740

ESTC No.

T11861

Grub Street ID

170100

Description

vii[i.e.viii],24p.,CLXXXIV[i.e.CLXXXVI]plates ; 4⁰

Note

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

With a list of subscribers.

Price from imprint: price Sixteen Shillings in Sheets.