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Period 18th century

Subject Terms Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

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 ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.

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 ... designs ... engraved on 186 ... plates ... to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns ; according to Andrea Palladio ... the whole interspersed, with sure rules, for working, all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ... / by Batty Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1740
Physical Description:: iv, 24 pages, clxxxiv [i.e. 186] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

2. 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 ... designs ... engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper plates, for piers, gates ... With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams ... To which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ... By B.L.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1745
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 22 p. 200 plates (incl. diagrs.) 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A reply to Observations on two trials at law, respecting Messieurs Adams's new-invented stucco : containing Mr. Wallace's reply to Mr. Dunning : with the summary of the evidence and charge to the jury, as taken down in court.

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Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 38 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Observations on two trials at law, respecting Messieurs Adams's new-invented patent-stucco / with additional remarks by a practical plaisterer.

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Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [1], 31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture : illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by old Rooker, old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands / by Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. ...

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Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [1], 8-137, [1] pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Etchings, representing the best examples of ancient ornamental architecture; drawn from the originals in Rome, and other parts of Italy, during the years 1794, 1795, and 1796. By Charles Heathcote Tatham ...

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Creator:: Tatham, Charles Heathcote, 1772–1842
Date:: 1799 [i. e. 1800]
Physical Description:: 12 p. plates. 49 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts