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 immediate use of workmen, never published before, in any language. By B.L.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	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.
Subjects:	Decoration and ornament, Architectural. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book