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The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. [electronic resource] :...

The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. [electronic resource] :...

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The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. [electronic resource] : 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, flutings, cablings, 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, truffed 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.

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The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. [electronic resource] : 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, flutings, cablings, 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, truffed 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.

Publisher

London : Printed for C. and R. Ware, J. Rivington, L. Hawes, W. Clarke and R. Collins, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, G. Robinson and J. Roberts, J. Johnson, and G. Pearch, 1768.

Date

1768.

Record Identifier

74VKpkM7wOLy

MMS ID

991019391179702626

Language

English

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Physical content

34,[2]p.,plates ; 16°.

Publication information

Publisher

London : Printed for C. and R. Ware, J. Rivington, L. Hawes, W. Clarke and R. Collins, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, G. Robinson and J. Roberts, J. Johnson, and G. Pearch, 1768.

Edition

The eleventh edition.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1768.

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Access Conditions

Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Full title

The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. [electronic resource] : 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...

Notes

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Price on title page: (Price 4s. 6d.)

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Citation / References Note

ESTC T78320.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VKpkM7wOLy

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKpkM7wOLy

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MMS ID

991019391179702626