Shelfmark
Gc.4.32
Author
Uniform title
[Builder's director. 1747]
Title
The builder's bench-mate: or inestimable pocket companion, making easy to the meanest capacity, the Grecian, Roman, & Gothick orders of architecture, by near five hundred examples taken from the ancients, of pedestals, bases, shafts, capitals, columns, architraves, imposts, key-stones, trusses, moldings of raking pediments, frontispieces, portico's, arcades, colonades, chimney-pieces, fretts, guilochi's, groins, weatherings, moldings for tabernacles, frames, &c. Proportioned by minutes and by equal parts. Never done so before. Engraved on 184 copper-plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from the erroneous measures publish'd in the editions of Leoni, Campbell, Hoppus, Ware, &c. Written for the use of gentlemen delighting in true architecture; nd for masters and workmen, to draw from, and work after. By Batty Langley, architect..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : printed only for Archimedes Langley, in Meard's-Court, Dean-street, Soho., MDCCXLVII. [1747]
Physical description
xxiv p., 184 p. of plates : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
A reissue of 'The builder's director', 1747, with a new title-page.
Note
Price from imprint: "[Price Six Shillings in Sheets.]".
Citation/references note
ESTC, T114293
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann recording bequest to Eton College in 1754.
Binding
18th century marbled calf; gilt single fillet border and spine decoration; five raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dd.6.18.
Subject
Architecture Orders Early works to 1800.
Subject
Architecture Details Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Langley, Archimedes bookseller.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B49077