Buy this book on-line Langley, Batty / 1696 to 1751 : The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs : Or the Art of Drawing and Working : The Ornimental Parts of Architecture : IllustratedLondon / S. Harding 1756 / Reprint, A Bound / Flex Cover / REPRINT ISBN B00085MGE0
Facsimile Bound Reprint Edition. 225 pages. Paperback : soft cover edition in good or better condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Overall good copy of this title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Full title page reads: The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs : Or the Art of Drawing and Working : The Ornimental 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, chimney pieces, tabernacle frames, pavements, frets, gulochi s, pulpits, types, alter pieces, monuments, fonts, obelisques, pedistals for, sun dials, busto s and stone tables, book cases, ceilings and iron works, proportioned by Aliquot Parts, with an appendix of forteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters and a variety of roofs, etc, to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio, whose members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a mor easy manner than has yet been done, the Whole interspersed sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, medillions, etc, the like for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language. By B. L. ; London, printed for S. Harding, and sold by B. Dod in Ave Maria Lane and J. Marks on the Pavement in St. Martin;s Lane, 1756. Glorious exposition of architecture elements for the modern home of 1750 designs. Fully executed drawings. MODERN REPRINT : Library Archive Services Co.. Illustr.: Fully Illustrated. Book. Book Condition: Good /Nice/Clean Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Langley, Batty / 1696 to 1751 : The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs : Or the Art of Drawing and Working : The Ornimental Parts of Architecture : Illustrated. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, out of print books, livres illustrées, incunabula and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |