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] : 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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Edinburgh : Printed for R. Clark bookseller in the Parliament-House, 1774.
Date
1774.
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English
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32p., 100 plates ; 4°.
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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.
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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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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, fluting...
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Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.
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ESTC T167214.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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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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