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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