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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Title(s):
The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : wherein their pedastals, columns, entablatures, imposts, and arches, are taken from the best examples of the ancients, and proportioned by equal parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy manner, than has been done in any language : for the instruction of apprentices and journeymen, masons and bricklayers ... : and others who desire a just knowledge of the fundamental rule of that noble art / B. Langley.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill, 1750.
Physical Description:
[2], 8 p., 48 leaves of plates : ill. ; 11 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA2810 .L35 1750
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
At foot of t.p. Price 1s. 6d. Bound.
English short title catalogue, T52729
Archer, 392.1
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers 1556-1785. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990, 473
BAC: [1] p. advertisment at front.
Subject Terms:
Architectural drawing -- Early works to 1800.
Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Architecture -- Orders -- Early works to 1800.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1750.
Ware, R. -- Publisher.
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