Saturday, 10 August 2019

The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury. 1756. Batty Langley.





The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury. 1756.

Batty Langley (1696 -1751).




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, ... 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; ... By B.L.

London: printed for S. Harding: and sold by B. Dod; and J. Marks, 1756.
24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 pl. ; 29.1 cm. (4ยบ)

First edition published in 1740, with further editions in 1745 and 1750.

































































































































































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