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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 brakets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, domes, scales, and stair-cases. Illustrated by upwards of 220 examples, engraved on 108 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 brakets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, domes, scales, and stair-cases. Illustrated by upwards of 220 examples, engraved on 108 copper-plates. By B. and T. Langley.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Printed for R. Clark bookseller in the Parliament-House, 1774.

Date

1774.

Record Identifier

74VKwVvRqE8b

MMS ID

991018346439702626

Language

English

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Physical content

32p., 100 plates ; 4°.

Publication information

Publisher

Edinburgh : Printed for R. Clark bookseller in the Parliament-House, 1774.

Edition

The thirteenth edition, with a large supplement.

Place of Publication

Scotland

Date Published

1774.

Access and use

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

General note

Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.

Citation / References Note

ESTC T167214.

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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74VKwVvRqE8b

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKwVvRqE8b

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MMS ID

991018346439702626