The builder's vade-mecum: Or, A complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where, by way of dialogue in nine lectures, the etymology, characters, proportions, profiles, ornaments, measures and dispositions of the members of their several columns and entablatures are distinctly consider'd and explain'd, with respect to the practice of palladio. Together with the manner of drawing the geometrical elevation of the five orders of columns in architecture and to measure the several parts of buildings in general: illustrated on seven coper-plates, being a necessary companion for all gentlemen's as well as masons, carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, &c. and all others concern'd in the several parts of buildings in general. By B. Langley, of Twickenham
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Main Author: Langley, Batty 1696-1751 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Dublin] London printed: and, Dublin re-printed by and for S. Fuller, at the Globe and Scales in Meath-Street 1729
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Item Description:English Short Title Catalog, T167238
Pp. 137-139 misnumbered 136-138
Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
With an index
Physical Description:Online-Ressource ([6],vi,136,136-138,[9]Seiten,plates) 8°

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