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. /
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for and sold by H. Piers, opposite to Dean Street, in High-Holborn,
1751.
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| Item Description: | At bottom of title page: "Those who purchase twelve books together, or recommend twelve buyers, shall have one book gratis." The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv pages, 184 pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 16 cm (8vo) |