Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Title:
The builder's director, or, Bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and gothic orders of architecture, made easy... : by nearly 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient andmodern, of pedestals, bases, shafts [etc.] ... : engraved on 184 copper plates: wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down ... / by Batty Langley ...
Alternate Title(s):
Builder's director.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for A. Webley, 1761.
Physical Description:
xxiv p., [92] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Other editions were published in 1747, 1751 and 1767.
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800. | Building -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Early works to 1800. | Webley, A. -- Publisher. | Beaumont, Richard Blackett, b.1926 -- Bookplate. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1761.