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035 _a(Sirsi) u155343
041 0 _aeng
100 1 _aLangley, Batty
_d1696-1751
245 0 4 _aThe builder's jewel
_bor, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining Short and Easy Rules, Made familiar to the meanest Capacity, For Drawing and Working, I. The Five Orders of Columns entire; or any Part of an Order, without Regard to the Module or Diameter. And to enrich them With their Rusticks, Fluting, Saburg, Dentules, Modillions, &c. Also to proportion Their Doors, Windows, Intercolumnations, Portico's, and Arcades. Together with Fourteen Varieties of Raking, Circular, Scrolled, Compound, and Contracted Pediments; and the true Formation and Accadering of their Raking and Returned Cornices; and Mouldings for Capping their Dentules and Modillions. II. Block and Cantaliver Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Cornices proportioned to Rooms, Angle Brackets, Mouldings for Tabernacle Frames, Pannelling, and Centering for Groins, Trussed Partitions, Girders, Roofs and Domes. With a Section of the Dome of St. Paul's, London. The Whole illustrated by upwards of 200 Examples, engraved on 100 Copper-Plates. By B. and T. Langley
260 _aLondon
_bprinted for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill
_cM.DCC.LVII. [1757]
300 _a34, [2] p., plates
_c16o
583 _aCondition reviewed
_c20120620
_lcondition level 1
651 4 _aGreat Britain
_y1707-
690 _aBuilding materials and defects
700 1 _aLangley, T.
_q(Thomas)
_d1702-1751
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