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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Creator Langley, Batty, 1696–1751

Work Type etching

1. 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 ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.

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 ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: iv, 24 pages, clxxxiv [i.e. 186] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

2. The young builder's rudiments, or, The principles of geometry, mechanicks, mensuration and perspective, geometrically demonstrated : together with the five orders of columns in architecture, according to the proportions of the celebrated Palladio : calculated for the use of workmen, gentlemen and others, who delight in designing, drawing, painting, engraving, and gardening, &c. / by B. Langley ; adorn'd with about thirty large copper plates, curiously engrav'd by J. Vandergucht and B. Cole.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: [8], 130, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm. (4o.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts