Associated Places: Great Britain / Image Available: Unavailable / Subject Terms: Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800. - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

<< YCBA Home << YCBA Home

Start Over

You searched for:

Associated Places Great Britain

Image Available Unavailable

Subject Terms Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800.

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 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, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, oblisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings [sic], and iron works : proportioned by aliquot parts : 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; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done : the whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. : the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language / by B. L.

No cover image available

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science, representing the five orders : with their several doors & windows taken from Inigo Jones & other celebrated architects ... / by William Halfpenny.

No cover image available

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: [3], 48 leaves : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working, according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors and windows ... / by William Halfpenny.

No cover image available

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:: [1764?]
Physical Description:: [3], 48 leaves : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts