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The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture
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- Date
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- 1756
- Publisher
- London: S. Harding
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- Other Title
- The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture
- Author
- Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
- Publisher
- London: S. Harding
- Date
- 1756
- Description of Original
- 24 pages, 186, 14 pages of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm.
- Format
- Text
- Language
- English
- [Cover]
- [Title Page]
- Introduction
- Contents of the fourteen plates of roofs, etc. which are added to the work
- Chap. 1. Of the manner of proportioning the five orders of columns in architecture
- Chap. 2. Of the intercolumnation or proper distance that the columns of every order are to be placed at, in the forming of designs for frontispieces, doors, windows, etc.
- [Explanation of plates]
- Five orders of columns
- Piers for gates
- Gates
- Doorways
- Curvatures of moldings and trusses
- Windows, entablatures and flutings
- Circular and elliptical windows
- Niches
- Methods for forming the heads of circular and elliptical niches
- Cisterns
- Chimney pieces
- Decorations and borders
- Altar pieces
- Pulpits
- Tablets for inscriptions
- Monuments
- Tombs
- Obelisques
- Timepieces
- Tables
- Fonts
- Pedestals
- Chests
- Dressing table
- Bookcases
- Ceilings
- Ironwork
- Roof beams and trusses
- [Cover]