The builder's bench-mate [electronic resource] : or inestimable pocket companion, making easy to the meanest capacity, the Grecian, Roman, & Gothick orders of architecture, by near five hundred examples taken from the ancients, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Frizes, 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. Never done so before. Engraved on 184 copper-plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, Free from the erroncous Measures publish'd in the Editions of Leoni, Campbell, Hoppus, Ware, &c. Written For the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen, to Draw from, and Work after. By Batty Langley, Architect.
1747
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The builder's bench-mate [electronic resource] : or inestimable pocket companion, making easy to the meanest capacity, the Grecian, Roman, & Gothick orders of architecture, by near five hundred examples taken from the ancients, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Frizes, 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. Never done so before. Engraved on 184 copper-plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, Free from the erroncous Measures publish'd in the Editions of Leoni, Campbell, Hoppus, Ware, &c. Written For the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen, to Draw from, and Work after. By Batty Langley, Architect.
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Builder's director
Publication Details
London : printed only for Archimedes Langley, in Meara's-Court, Dean-Street, Soho, MDCCXLVII. [1747]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
xxivp.,184plates ; 8⁰.
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A reissue of 'The builder's director', 1747, with a new titlepage.
Price from imprint: price Six Shillings in Sheets.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Price from imprint: price Six Shillings in Sheets.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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English Short Title Catalog, T114293.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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