The builder's director, or Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture to the meanest capacity by near 500 examples. Improved from the best authors, ancient and modern, of pedestals, bases, shafts, capitals, columns, architraves, freezes, brackets, cornices, arches, imposts, key-stones, trusses, moldings of raking pediments, frontispieces, portico's, arcades, colonades, chimney-pieces, fretts, guilochi's, groins, weatherings, moldings for tabernacles, frames, &c. Proportioned by minutes and by equal parts. The like never before published. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down free from erroneous measures. /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Other Authors: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for and sold by H. Piers, opposite to Dean Street, in High-Holborn, 1751.
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Call Number: NA2810 L28 1751
 
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