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, modilions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumniations, porticoes, and arcades. Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modilions. II. Block and cantiliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, and domes. With a section of the dome of St. Paul's, London. The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, e

People / Organizations

• S. Etheridge ("printed by")
• Batty Langley (Author)

Imprint

Charlestown [Mass.]: Printed by S. Etheridge, for Samuel Hill, engraver, no. 2, Cornhill, Boston, [1800]

Publication year

1800-1800

ESTC No.

W30065

Grub Street ID

340373

Description

iv,5-46p., [1],99leaves of plates : ill. ; 16⁰

Note

Advertised as "just published" in the Salem Gazette, March 7, 1800.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: A?(-A1) C? E? (A5, C5, E5 signed B, D, F)